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and ends of the branches, succeeded by bunches of dark red fruit, 

 commonly called haws ; flowers two-styled, sometimes three or four. 



2. Cratsegus coccinea, or great American hawthorn. Leaves cor- 

 date-ovate, gash-angledj smooth ; petioles and calyxes glandular; flow- 

 ers Jive-styled. 



This rises, when detached, to the height of near twenty feet, with 

 a large upright trunk, dividing into many, strong, irregular, smooth 

 branches, so as to form a large head. Leaves large and bending 

 backwards ; they are about four inches long, and three and a half 

 broad, having five or six pairs of strong nerves, and become of a 

 brownish red in autumn. The flowers come out from the sides of 

 the branches in umbels or large clusters ; they are large, make a noble 

 show early in May, and are succeeded by large fruit of a bright 

 scarlet color, which ripens in August or September. The branches 

 are marked with irregularly scattered dots; thorns axillary, stout, 

 spreading very much from the rudiments of the branches. Pedun- 

 cles pubescent, corymbed. 



3. Crat&gus crus galli, or cockspur hawthorn. Leaves subsessile, 

 glittering, coriaceous; calycine leaflets, lanceolate subserrate ; flow- 

 ers, two-styled. 



Stem strong, ten to fifteen feet high, bark of the stem rough, of 

 the branches smooth and reddish. Leaves lanceolate, three inches 

 long, and about one inch broad in the middle, serrate, of a lucid 

 green, alternate ; at many of the joints are smaller leaves in clusters; 

 thorns axillary, very strong, two inches in length, and bending like 

 a cock's spur. Flowers axillary, in roundish clusters, generally two 

 together, petals white, with a blush of red ; styles three ; fruit globu- 

 lar, of a red color. It flowers the latter end of May. 



4. Cratsegus tomentosa, or woolly-leaved hawthorn. Leaves wedge- 

 form-ovate, serrate, somewhat angular, viUose underneath. 



This has a slender shrubby stem about six or seven feet high, send- 

 ing out many irregular branches, armed with long slender thorns. 

 The flowers are small, proceeding from the sides of the branches, 

 sometimes single, and at other times two or three upon the same 

 peduncle, having large leafy calyxes, and being succeeded by small 

 roundish fruit. The flowers appear the latter end of May, and the 

 fruit ripens in September. 



5. Cratsegus cordata, or maple-leaved hawthorn. Leaves cordate- 

 ovate, gash-angled, smooth, petioles and calyxes without glands; flow- 

 ers flve-styled. 



This rises with a strong woody stem about five or six feet high, 

 sending out many spreading branches which incline to a horizontal 

 position. Leaves different in form, some indented at the petiole, others 

 not : they are generally about an inch and a half long, and nearly 

 of the same breadth in the middle, ending in acute points, and their 

 borders cut into several acute parts, which are sharply serrate ; they 

 are of a bright green, and stand on very slender petioles, about an 

 inch in length. The branches are armed with a few pretty long 

 slender spines. The flowers come out in small bunches from the 

 sides of the branches; stamens eight; styles four; fruit round, con- 

 gaining two seeds. 



