ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



biculate. Styles 5. Fruit scarlet, eatable. (Dec. Prod.) A low tree. North 

 America, from Canada to Carolina, in hedges and woods. Height 15ft. 

 to 20ft. Introduced in 1683. Flowers white; May and June. Fruit 

 large, round, or somewhat pear-shaped, scarlet ; ripe in September. De- 

 caying leaves yellow, inclining to scarlet. Naked young wood dark-coloured ; 

 old wood with a whitish bark. 



Varieties. It would be easy to procure as many varieties of this species as 

 there are of the common hawthorn, by raising some thousands of plants 

 every year from seed, and selecting from the seed-beds plants indicating 

 any 'peculiarity of leaf or of habit ; but, as in the nurseries the most rapid 

 way of producing saleable plants of this, and all the other species and va- 

 rieties of Cratae v gus, is found to be by grafting on the common hawthorn, 

 very few seedlings are raised, and the varieties in cultivation are only the 

 three or four following : 



C. c. 2 cordllina. C. corallina Lodd. Cat. ; the C. pyriformis and C. pec- 

 tinata of some collections. (^.678. in p. 387.) The leaves and 

 the entire plant are, perhaps, rather smaller than in the species ; 

 the habit of the tree is decidedly more upright and fastigiate ; and 

 the fruit is smaller, long, and of a fine coral red ; whence the name 

 is probably derived, though, in the first edition of the Hort. Soc. 

 Catalogue, it is called the red-branched hawthorn. The plants at 

 Messrs. Loddiges's, however, exhibit only a slight degree of redness 

 in the branches of the young wood. 



y C. c. 3 indentdta. C. indentata Lodd. Cat. ; C. georgica Doug. (jig. 678. 

 in p. 387.) The leaves are smaller, and less lobed, than those of 

 the species ; the plant is also weaker, of upright habit, and with a 

 smooth clear bark. It is very prolific in flowers and fruit. 

 If C. c. 4 mamma Lodd. Cat. C. c. spinosa Godefroy ; C. acerifolia Hort. ; 

 C. ? flabellata Hort. The leaves are larger than those of any other 

 variety ; and the fruit is also large. As we have not seen living 

 plants of C. flabellata, but only dried specimens sent from Terenure 

 and the Humbeque Nursery, we are not absolutely certain that C. 

 flabellata and C. c. maxima are the same ; but we feel quite certain 

 that they both belong to C. coccinea. We are informed that the C. 

 flabellata of some nurseries is C. tanacetifolia ; which certainly 

 has its leaves more flabellate, or fan-like, than any variety of C. 

 coccinea. 



t C. c. 5 neapolltana Hort. -Mespilns constantinopolitana Godefroi/. 

 Plants were in Messrs. Loddiges's collection in 1837. 



2. C. GLANDULO'SA W. The glandular Thorn. 



Identification. Willd. Sp., 2. p. 1002., not of Michx. ; Pursh Amer. Sept., 1. p. 337. ; Dec. Prod , 2. 



p. 627. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 599. 

 Synonymes. ? C. sanguinea Pall. Fl. Ros. 1. t. 11. ; ? Mespilus rotundifblia Ehrh. Beilr. Z. p. 20. : 



Perils glanduldsa Mcench ; C. rotundifolia Booth. 

 Engravings. ? Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t. 11. ; Lod. Bot. Cab., t. 1012 ; Dend. Brit., t. 58. ; our fig. 680 



in p. 388. j the plate of this species in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. ; and our fig. 636. 



Spec. Char., eye. Leaves with the disk obovate-wedge-shaped, angled, gla- 

 brous, glossy. Petioles, stipules, and sepals glanded. Fruit oval, scarlet ; 

 nuts 4 5 ; flesh hard and dry. (Dec. Prod.) A low tree. North Ame- 

 rica, in Canada and on the Alleghany Mountains, and also found on the 

 Rocky Mountains. Height 12ft. to 15ft. Introduced in 1750. Flowers 

 white ; May and June. Fruit scarlet ; ripe in September. 



Varieties. 



C. g. 2 succulenta Fisch., Mespilus succulenta Booth, has the fruit 

 larger than that of the species, and succulent, juicy, and eatable. 

 We have seen only one plant of this variety ; but we were assured 

 by the late M. Fischer of Gottingen, that there are several in the 

 botanic garden there, and in various other collections in Germany. 



