XXVI. iJOSA CE^ : CRATJE GUS, 



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xiii. Parvifblice. 



Sect. Char. Leaves small, ovate, serrated or notched, but scarcely lobed. 

 Fruit green, or greenish yellow ; rather large, hai'd. 



3^ 25. C. PARViFO^LiA Alt. The small-leaved Thorn. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 2. p. IG9. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. C27. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 598. 

 Synonymes. JV/espilus axillaris Pers. Si/n. 2. p. 37. ; M. tomentbsa Pair. Diet. 4. p. 443. ; M. xan- 



thocarpos Lin.fil. Suppl. 254. ; M. parviiblia Wats. Dend. Brit. ; Cratse'gus tomentt)sa Lin. Sp 



fi82., Trew FJir. t. 17. ; C. uni- 



fl6ra Du liui ; C. turbinata 



Pursh; C. viridis, a.Killaris, 6e- 



tulifdlia, florida, linearis, Lodd. 



Cat. ; Gooseberry-leaved Thorn; 



Lord Iley's Thorn. 

 Engravings. Trew Ehr., t. 17. ; 



Dend. Brit., t. 65. ; our j?^. 671. ; 



and^. 727. in p. 402. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves 

 oval-lanceolate, incisely 

 serrated, and pubescent. 

 Flowers mostly solitary. 

 Branchlets and calyxes 

 villose. Stipules bristle- 

 like. Sepals serrated. 

 Fruit almost top-shaped, 

 yellow, or yellowish 

 green. Nuts 5. (Dec. 

 Prod.) A low shrub. 

 North America, New Jersey to Carolina, in sandy shady woods. 



671 C. parrifbHa. 



Heigh 



Flowers white ; May and 



672. C. p. fldrida. 



4 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced previously to 1713, 

 June, rather later than in most other spe- 

 cies. Haws large, greenish yellow ; ripe in 

 November, often hanging on the tree all 

 the winter. 



Varieties. 



^ C. p. 2 florida, C. florida Lodd. Cat. 

 {fig. 726. in p. 402., and our fig. 

 672.), has the leaves and fruit some- 

 what smaller and rounder than those 

 of the species. 



34 C. p. 3 grossularicpfdlia, C. linearis 



Lodd. Cat. (fig. 728. in p. 402., and our fig. 673.), has the leaves 

 lobcd, and somewhat like those of the gooseberry. 



These varieties run so much into .^ 



one another, that, unless they are 

 seen together in a living state, as 

 in Messrs. Loddiges's arboretum, 

 it is difficult to distinguish them 

 from the species, or from each 

 other ; for, however different the 

 leaves may appear in our figures 

 (see p. 402.), all the forms of these 

 may occasionally be found on the 

 same plant : and some plants of 

 each variety are wholly without 

 spines, while in others the spines 

 are very numerous. As all of them 

 are small plants, with flowers large 



m proportion to the size of the 73. p. grosswiariiEfoiia 



leaves, they are well adapted for exemplifying the genus Cratse^gus in a minia- 

 ture arboretum. 



