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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leat^es with the disk broadly ovate, unequally serrated, and 

 glabrous ; the petioles bearing a few glands. Sepals with glanded serratures. 

 Peduncle and calyx a little villose. Seeds 2 in a pome. {Dec. Prod.) A 

 low tree. North America. Height 15 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1818, 

 or before. Flowers white ; May and June. Fruit scarlet. 



Differs from the preceding variety in having broader and shorter leaves, a 

 more compact and fastigiate habit of growth, and rather more thorns on the 

 branches. The leaves of this and the preceding kinds die off of a nuich 

 deeper red than the narrow-leaved varieties, which often drop quite green, 

 yellow, or of a yellowish red. 



V. Nlgrce. 



Sect. Char. Leaves middle-sized, deeply lobed. Lobes pointed. Fruit round, 

 black or purple. Tree rather fastigiate, with few or no spines. Bark 

 smooth. 



t 9. C. Ni^GRA Waldst. et Kit. The hXack-fruited Thorn. 



Ideritiflcation. Waldst. et Kit. PI. Rar. Hung., t. 61. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. .W9. 

 Synonymes. jVespilus nigra Willd. Enum. 5'24. ; C. carpatica Lodd. Cat. 



Engravings. Waldst. et Kit. PI. Rar. Hung., t. 61. ; Jig. 694. in p. 392. ; the plate of this species in 

 Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. ; and our ./fg^. 646. 



646. C. nigra. 



Spec. Char., c^r. Leaves sinuately lobed, and serrated, somewhat wedge- 

 shaped, though truncately so, at the base ; whitely villose beneath. Stipules 

 oblong, serrately cut. Calyxes villose; the lobes slightly toothed. Styles 

 5. Fruit black. (Dec. Prod.) A low tree. Hungary. Height 15ft. to 

 20 ft., throwing up numerous suckers from its widely spreading roots, which 

 soon cover the ground with a forest of bushes. In England, where it is 

 generally propagated by grafting on the common thorn, it forms a very 

 handsome, upright, somewhat fastigiate tree, from 20 ft. to 30 ft. high, put- 

 ting forth its leaves, in mild seasons, in February or March. Introduced in 

 1819. Flowers white; April and May. Fruit black; ripe in July and 

 August. 



Variety. C. fiisca Jacq., judging from a seedling plant in the Hort. Soc. 



Garden, appears to belong to this species. 



Nightingales are said to be attracted by this tree, probably because it is par- 

 ticularly liable to be attacked by insects, and because numerous caterpillars 



