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537. CRAT.^GUS. L, (Hawthorn.) 



Calix 5-rleft. Petals 5. Stijles I to 5. Fniit 

 a farinaceous berry, or small a|)])le producing 

 £ to 5 bony seeds, or nuts. 



Small spiny trees or slinibs; leaves alternate simple, 

 undivided orlobed; peduncles many-fiowered, mostly ter- 

 minal and corymbose, rarely solitary lateral or terminal; 

 flowers M'hite sometimes rosaceous; fruit scarlet or yellow. 



Species. \.il. apiifolin. Flow- rs and berries small, 

 the latter scarlet- Preferable to every other species in 

 North America for hedges, rem.aining g-recn very late \a 

 the autumn, being" also perfectly hardy and spreading" 

 low so as to produce a close fence, similiar totiiat afford- 

 ed C. Oxyacantha'm the nort:h of Eur(^pe, a species which 

 in the United States thrives badly and grows up erect so as 

 to be unlit for close hedges as in its native soil. 2. apa- 

 tladata. 3- cocchiea This fine species frequently becomes 

 a small tree and produces abundance of fruit. 4. populifo- 

 lia. S.pyrijolia 6. elliptica. 7- glandulosa. S.flava. Fruit 

 larg-e, not very abundant, but of an exquisite flavor, simi- 

 lar t(» that of the finest apple. 9. parvifoUa. 10, piincla- 

 ta. 11. Crus gain. 



Principally a North American genus, at the same time 

 there are 3 species in Japan, 6 in Europe,! in the Levant, 

 1 in In.dia, and 2 in the northern parts of Africa, there are 

 also 2 species said to be indigenous to Peru. 



333. SORBUS. L. (Mountain Ash.) 



Calia- 5-clefi. Fetais 5. Styles 2 or 3. 

 Berry farinaceous, inferior, 2 or S-seeded, 



Seeds '"art 1 1 ag i n o u s. 



Trees with alternate leaves, which are pseudopinnate, 

 pinnaiifid, deeply toothed or lobed; flowers corymbose 

 terminal 



Species. 1 -S". amencana. Apples fulvous insipid and 

 farinaceous, about lialf the size of those of Pt/rus corona- 

 ria, Svidom containir.g more than 1 or 2 perfect seeds. 2. 

 inicroccipa. 



An European genus S. aucupana, and S- hybridQi ex- 

 tending within the arctic circle. 



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