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HAWTHORN 



+t .Shoots glabrous, and twigs silvery grey to 

 dull brown ; leaf-scars crescentic, small, with 

 3 leaf-traces ; buds minute, the terminal not 

 more than 0*5 cm. long, and often two 

 tcjgethor, one larger than the other and 

 soon dying; pairs also are common at the 

 base of the thorn, which is stout, smooth, 

 straight, and about 1 2 cm. long. 



Crata'gus Oxycantlia, L. Hawthorn, Whitethorn (Figs. 

 97 and 98). The twigs and thorns are usually stouter 

 than those of the Blackthorn, besides being greyer or 



Fig. 97. Hawthorn, Cratagus Oxycavtlia (D). 



