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jlRBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



The leaves and calyxes are covered on both sides with long hairs. The 

 globular slightly compressed fruit has somewhat the appearance of being 

 ribbed like a melon ; is larger than that of any other species of the genus, ex- 

 cept C. ^ronia and C. niexicana; greenish yellow when ripe ; and easily dis- 

 tinguishable by the bracteas generally adhering to it. The foliage is the latest 

 in appearing of any of the species, except C. orientalis, frequently equally late. 



xi. Heterophylla. 



Sect. Char. Leaves cuneate, and sub-persistent, 

 and crimson. 



Fruit long, middle-sized, 



t 23. C. heterophy'lla Flustse. 



The various-leaved Thorn. 



Identification. FIu?ge Ann. Mus., 12. p. 423. t. 38. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 629. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 600. ; 



Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1847. 

 Si/nonynies. C. ncapolitana Hort. 

 Engravings. Ann. Mus., 12. t. 38. ; Bot. Reg., t. 1 161. and t. 1847. j Ig. 713. in p. 399. ; the plate 



in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. ; and out Jig. 661. 



6G1. C. heterophylla. 



Spec. Char., (^c. Leaves bright, falling off late, lanceolate-cuneate, toothed 

 at the apex, 3-cleft ; segments serrate. Tube of the calyx fusiform. Cymes 

 many-flowered. Flowers 1-styled. Fruit ovate, including one nut, with a 

 hard bony shell, and one seed. Stipules large, pinnatifid. (Lhidl.) A low 

 tree, with ascending branciies. Native country uncertain, most probably 

 the South of Europe ; possibly a hybrid between the common h:i\vthorn, 

 and the azarole, or some other species. Height 10 ft. to 20 ft. Cultivated 

 in 1816. Flowers white, produced in great abundance ; May. Fruit rich 

 crimson, resembling in sha[)e that of the common hawthorn, but narrower; 

 ripe in September and October. 

 A very handsome and most desirable species ; producing its leaves and 



flowers early in the spring, and retaining its leaves and fruit till the first 



autumnal frosts. 



