xxvi. TZOSA'CE^E: CRAT^ N GUS, 



383 



671. C.panrifbHa. 



xiii. Parvifblite. 



Sect. Char. Leaves small, ovate, serrated or notched, but scarcely lobed. 

 Fruit green, or greenish yellow ; rather large, hard. 



& 25. C. PARVIFO'LTA Ait. The small-leaved Thorn. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 2. p. 169. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 627. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 598. 

 Synonymes. Mespilus axillaris Pers. Syn. 2. p. 37. ; M. tomentosa Pair. Diet. 4. p. 443 ' M xan- 



thocarpos Lin.jil. Suppl. 254. ; M. parvifblia Wats. Dend. Brit. ; Crate'gus tomentbsa Lin. So. 



682., Trew Ehr. t. 17. ; C. uni- 



flbra Du Rot; C. turbinata 



Pursh ; C. viridis, axillaris, be- 



tulifdlia, florida, linearis, Lodd. 



Cat. ; Gooseberry-leaved Thorn; 



Lord Iley's Thorn. 

 Engravings. Trew Ehr., t. 17.; 



Dend. Brit., t. 65. ; our fig. 671. ; 



and fig. 727. in p. 402. 



Spec. Char., $-c. Leaves 

 oval-lanceolate, incisely 

 serrated, and pubescent. 

 Flowers mostly solitary. 

 Branchlets and calyxes 

 villose. Stipules bristle- 

 like. Sepals serrated, 

 Fruit almost top-shaped, 

 yellow, or yellowish 

 green. Nuts 5. (Dec. 

 Prod.) A low shrub. 

 North America, New Jersey to Carolina, in sandy shady woods. Heigh 

 4ft. to 6ft. Introduced previously to 1713. Flowers white; May and 

 June, rather later than in most other spe- 

 cies. Haws large, greenish yellow ; ripe in 

 November, often hanging on the tree all 

 the winter. 



Varieties. 



& C. p. 2 fiorida, C. florida Lodd. Cat. 

 (fig. 726. in p. 402., and our fig. 

 672.), has the leaves and fruit some- 

 what smaller and rounder than those 

 of the species. 

 & C. p. 3 grossularwpfotia, C. linearis 



Lodd. Cat. (fig. 728. in p. 402., and our fig. 673.), has the leaves 

 lobed, and somewhat like those of the gooseberry. 



These varieties run so much into 

 one another, that, unless they are 

 seen together in a living state, as 

 in Messrs. Loddiges's arboretum, 

 it is difficult to distinguish them 

 from the species, or from each 

 other ; for, however different the 

 leaves may appear in our figures 

 (see p. 402.), all the forms of these 

 may occasionally be found on the 

 same plant: and some plants of 

 each variety are wholly without 

 spines, while in others the spines 

 are very numerous. As all of them 

 are small plants, with flowers large 

 in proportion to the size of the 

 leaves, they are well adapted for exemplifying the genus Cratae v gus in a minia- 

 ture arboretum. 



672. C. p. fldrida. 



