ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



* 14. C. (F.) TRILOBA'TA Lodd. Cat. The three-lobed-leaved Thorn. 



Identification. Lodd. Cat., edit. 1832. 

 Synonyme. C. spinosissima Lee. 

 Engraving. Fig. 700. in p. 395. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves ovate-cuneate, notched and serrated. Petioles 

 slender. Surface flat, shining, somewhat veined. Branches small, thickly 

 beset with slender thorns. Habit spreading. A hybrid, raised from seed 

 in the Hammersmith Nursery, about 1820, or before. It forms a tree in 

 general appearance resembling C. flava, but with the branches much less 

 vigorous, and more thorny. The fruit is yellow, slightly tinged with red ; 

 and what distinguishes it from the two allied sorts is, that its leaves die off, 

 in autumn, of an intensely deep scarlet. 



viii. Apiifolitf. 



Sect. Char. Leaves deltoid, or somewhat resembling those of the common 

 thorn. The fruit is also of the same colour ; but the tree has a totally dif- 

 ferent habit, having the shoots loose and spreading, weak, and almost without 

 thorns. 



15. C. ^PIIFO'LIA Michx. The Parsley-leaved Thorn. 



Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 287., not of Med. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 627. ; Don's Mill. 



2. p. 599. 



Synonymes. C. Oxyac&ntha Walt . Carol. 147. ; C. cpiifblia major Lodd. Cat. 

 Engravings. Fig. 702. in p. 395.; the plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. : and our fig. 651. 



Spec. Char.y $c. Leaves deltoid, cut into lobes that are acute and incisely 

 toothed. Pedicels in the corymb villose, mostly simple. Tube of calyx 

 villose. Sepals obscurely serrated. Fruit scarlet. (Dec. Prod.) A low 

 spreading tree with flexible branches. Virginia and Carolina, in moist woods. 

 Height 10ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1812. Flowers white; May and June. 

 Haws scarlet ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves rich yellow. 



Variety. 



4 C. a. 2 minor, C. apiifolia Lodd. Cat. (fig. 701. in p. 395.), has the 

 leaves smaller than those of the species, and more fringed at the 



