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the following species. It is a native of the Crimea, and the parts 

 bordering on the Black Sea ; and was introduced in 1810. On ac- 

 count of the colour of its fruit, and the abundance in which it is 

 produced, it deserves a place in every collection. 



Readily distinguished from most other species by its very hoary branches, 

 which are loose, rambling, crossing each other, and somewhat pendulous. It 

 is late in producing its leaves, and also its flowers : the latter generally appear 

 with those of C. tanacetifolia, about the end of May (in 1836, on the 17th of 

 June). 



22. C. TANACETIFOLIA Pers. The Tansy-leaved Thorn. 



Identification Pers Syn., 2. p. 38. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 629. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 601. 



Synonymes. Mespilus tannacetifolia Poir. Diet. 4. p. 440., and N. Du Ham. ; M. pinnata Dum 



Cours., Sm. Exot. t. 85. ; DeCandolle doubts whether 3/espilus Cchidna Dum. Cours. Suppl. 



p. 286. be different from this species ; Lazzeruolo turco, Hal. 

 Engravings. Bot. Rep., t. 591. ; Sm. Exot. Bot., t. 85. ; Bot. Reg., 1884. ; fig. 710. in p. 398. ; the 



plate in" Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. ; and our fig. 658. 



C. tanacetifolia. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves pinnatifidly cut, hairy ; lobes oblong, acute, having 

 a few teeth. Sepals acutish, reflexed, hairy. Styles 5. Fruit globose, 

 yellowish green. (Dec. Prod.~) A robust-growing fastigiate tree, with up- 

 right rigid branches, commonly terminating in thorny points. Levant. Height 

 20 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 1789. Flowers white ; May and June. Haws 

 large, yellow ; ripe in October. 



Varieties. 



t C. t. 2 gldbra Lodd. (fig. 71 1. in p. 398. ; the plate in Arb. Brit., 1st 

 edit., vol. vi. ; and our fig. 659.) has shining leaves, and fruit about 

 half the size of that of the species, of a reddish yellow. A hybrid 

 between C. tanacetifolia and C. Oxyacantha. Introduced from Ger- 

 many about 1810. 



$ C. t. 3 CW-siana. .Mespilus Celsiana Dumont de Cours., vol. vii. p. 286. ; 

 C. t. 3 "Leedna Arb. Brit. 1st ed. ; C. incisa Lee. (fig. 712. in 

 p. 399. ; plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit.; and our ^g. 660.) Some- 

 what resembling C. orientals ; but the leaves much larger, and more 

 deeply cut, and the trees of a more robust, erect, and fastigiate habit. 

 Fruit large, yellow. Cultivated by Cels, and supposed by Dumont de 

 Courset to be a native of Persia or the Levant. Erroneously said 

 to have been raised in the Hammersmith Nursery. A splendid tree, 



