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Trees or shrubs, small, deciduous, sometimes evergreen ; mostly natives of 

 Europe and North America, and some of them of Asia and the North of 

 Africa. One of them, the common hawthorn, is well known throughout 

 the Middle and North of Europe, as a hedge plant. The species all flower 

 and fruit freely ; and the wood of all of them is hard and durable, and the 

 plants of considerable longevity. Almost all the flowers are white, and the 

 fruit is generally red ; though in some sorts it is yellow, purple, black, or 

 green. All the species ripen fruit in the neighbourhood of London, most 

 of them abundantly; by which, or by grafting or budding on the common 

 hawthorn, they are generally propagated. When the species which have 

 naturally a dwarf habit of growth are intended to assume the character of 

 low trees, they are grafted standard high upon C. Oxyacantba, C. coccinea, 

 or on some other of the strong-growing kinds ; in consequence of which prac- 

 tice, this genus furnishes a greater number of handsome small trees for orna- 

 mental grounds than any other ligneous family whatever. All the species 

 will grow on any soil that is tolerably dry ; but they will not grow vigorously 

 in a soil that is not deep and free, and rich rather than poor. Whether as 

 small trees or as shrubs, they are all admirably adapted for planting grounds 

 of limited extent ; and especially for small gardens in the neighbourhood of 

 large towns. 



i. Coccinea;. 



Sect. Char., $c. Leaves cordate, lobed, acutely serrated. Flowers and fruit 

 large. The plants also large, and of free and vigorous growth. 



^ 1. C. COCCI'NEA L. The scarlet-fruited Thorn. 



Identification* Lin. Sp., 682. ; Pursh Amer. Sept, 1. p. 337. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 627. ; Don's Mill., 



2. p. 599. 

 Synonymes. C. aestivalis Booth ; 3/espilus testivalis Walt. Fl. Car. ; M. coccinea Mill. Nouv. Dtt 



Ham. ; thornless American Azarole ; Neflier ecarlate, Fr. ; scharlachrothe Mispel, Ger. ; Laz- 



zeruolo rosso, Hal. 

 Engravings. Pluk., t 46. f. 4. ; Dend. Brit., t. 62. ; Bot. Mag., t. 3432. ; ourjSg. 677. in p. 386. ; 



the plate in Arb. Brit, 1st edit., vol. yi.; and our//g. 634. 



Spec. C/iar., Sfc. Disks of leaves cordate-ovate, angled with lobes, acutely 

 serrated, glabrous. Petioles and calyxes pubescent, glanded. metals or. 



