XXVI. JJOSA^CE^ : CRAT^^GUS. 



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C49. C. fliva. 



from Virginia to Carolina. Height 15 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in .724. 



Flowers white ; May. 

 rich yellow. 



Haws yellow ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves 



Don's Mill., 2. p. 599. 

 : C. liltea Pair. 



The flowers and the fruit are neither produced in abundance, nor make any 

 great show ; but the tree has a marked character from its general form, and 

 the horizontal tendency of its branches. 



13. C. (f.) lobaVa Bosc. The \oheA-ieaved Thorn. 



Identification. Bosc ined. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628. ; 

 Hitnonymes. 3/espilus lobata Pair. Swppl. 4. p. 71. 

 Engravings. Fig. G99. in p. 394. ; and our Jig. 660. 



Spec.Char.,Sfc. Branches 

 a little villose. Disks 

 of leaves ovate, une- 

 qually serrated, or 

 lobed, slightly downy 

 beneath, ujjon very 

 short petioles. Sti- 

 pules cut. Flowers in 

 loose corymbs. {Dec. 

 Prod.) A tree closely . 

 resembling C. fliiva in 

 general appearance. 

 Native country sup- 



?osed to be America, 

 leight 10 ft. to 13 ft. 

 Introduced in 1819. 

 Flowers white ; May. 

 Fruit green ; ripe in October. 



Differing from C flava in having some of the leaves with larger lobes, and 



some of the spines larger. The flowers are sparingly produced, amongst dense 



tufts of leaves ; and the fruit, which is green when ripe, is still less abundant. 



It is pear-shaped, and very different from that of every other khid of C'ratae'gus, 



i except C. flava and C. f. trilobata. 



C;0. C. f. lobata 



