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ARBORETUM ET FHUT1CETUM BUI TANNICUM. 



640. C. luacracihitha 



growth. The shoots straight, and tending upwards at an angle of 45. 

 North America, and the most common species in the northern states. 

 Height 10ft. to 30ft. Introduced in 1819. Flowers white; May and 

 June. Fruit scarlet, rather smaller than that of C. coccinea ; ripe in Sep- 

 tember. 



Variety. 



C.m.2 minor (fig. 686. in p. 390; ) only differs from the species in 

 having smaller fruit. There are plants at Somerford Hall, Staf- 

 fordshire. 



Raised from American seed, in 1819, in the nursery of Messrs. Falla, at 

 Gateshead, near Newcastle ; whence it was sent to the Edinburgh Botanic 

 Garden, under the name of the large American azarole. 



$ iv. Ortts-g&Ui. 



Sect. Char. Leaves without lobes, obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, 

 more or less serrated, and of a dark shining green, with petioles margined 

 by the decurrence of the leaf. Fruit small, or middle sized, round, dark 

 green till nearly ripe, and, when ripe, scarlet. Spines very long, and bent 

 like the spur of a cock. 



If 6. C. CRU'S-GA'LLI L. The Cock's-spur Thorn. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 632. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 626. ; Fursh Fl. Amer. Sept., i. p. 338. ; Don's 



Mill., 2. p. 598. 

 Svnonymes. C'ratae^gus Iticida Wang. Am. t. 17. f. 42., and Mill. Diet. ; C. cuneifolia Lodd. Cat. ; 



Mespilus Idcida Ehrh. Beitr. ; M. Crus-gfelli Pair. ; M. hyemalis Walt ; M. cuneifblia Mcench; 



Neflier Pied de Coc, Fr. ; glanzende Mispel, Ger. ; Lazzarollo spinoso, Ital. 

 Engravings. Wang. Am., t. 17. f. 42. ; Dend. Brit., t. 56. ; our fig. 687. in p. 391. ; the plate of the 



species in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. ; and oar fig. 641. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Spines long. Leaves obovate-wedge-shaped, nearly ses- 

 sile, glossy, glabrous, falling off late. Stipules linear. Lobes of the calyx 

 lanceolate, arid somewhat serrated. Styles 2. Fruit scarlet. (Dec. Prod.) 

 A low tree. North America ; common in woods' and hedges, and on the 

 banks of rivers, from Canada to Carolina. Height 15 ft. to 20 ft. Intro- 



