CHAP. XLII. /L'OSA'CEJE. CRAT^GUS. 829 



injdiameter, and is roundish, with fine angles, like the ribs of a melon"; being 

 lightly covered with down, and having a persistent calyx of 5 sepals, toothed 

 like the leaves of the tree. Tournefort also notices the circumstance of one or 

 two of the bracteas sometimes growing out of the flesh of the fruit, or being 

 produced from its footstalk. The fruit, though agreeable, he says is not so 

 much so as that of the azarole ; but he thinks it might be improved by cul- 

 tivation. It is much eaten by the Armenians. This species was introduced 

 in 1789; and in 10 years it forms a tree 20ft. high; readily distinguishable, 

 at some distance, by the rough scaly bark of its trunk, and the stiff upright 

 branches which form its head. 



Statistics. In the environs of London, at Kenwood, 35 years planted, and 20 ft. high, the dia- 

 meter of the trunk 9 in., and of the head 15ft.; at Syon, 14ft. high ; in Dorsetshire, at Melbury 

 Park, -JO years planted, and 17 ft. high ; in Somersetshire, at Hinton House, 19 years planted, and 

 18 ft. high ; in Surrey, at Farnham Castle, 50 years planted, and 20ft. high; in Wiltshire, at 

 Longleat, 40 years planted, and 20ft. high; in Berkshire, at White Knights, 25 years planted, 

 and 14ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 9 in., and of the head 26ft ; in Nottinghamshire, at 

 Clumber Park, 18ft. high ; in Oxfordshire, in the Oxford Botanic Garden, 18 ft. high ; in Pembroke- 

 shire, at Golden Grove, 20 years planted, and 15ft. high ; in Staffordshire, at Trentham, 21 years 

 planted, and 18ft. high; in Suffolk, at Ampton Hall, 16 years planted, and 15ft. high; in Wor- 

 cestershire, at Croome, 20 years planted, and 25 ft. high. In Scotland, in Renfrewshire, in the 

 Glasgow Botanic Garden, 12 years planted, and lift, high; at Bothwell Castle, 45 years planted, 

 and 30 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 13 in., and of the head 40 ft, in prepared loamy soil, in a 

 sheltered situation. In Ireland, in the Cullenswood Nursery, 12 years planted, and 21 ft. high; at 

 Oriel Temple, 25 years planted, and 18ft. high. 



xi. Heterophylla. 



Sect. Char. Leaves cuneate, and sub-persistent. Fruit long, middle-sized, 

 and crimson. 



23. C. HETEROPHY'LLA Fluggc. The various-leaved Thorn. 



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



Lindl. in Hot. Reg., t. 1847. 



Si/iioni/mes. C. neapolitana Hort. ; J/tspilus constantinopolitilna Godefroy. 

 EMeraefngg. Ann. Mus., 12. t. 38. ; Bot. Reg., 1. 1847. ; Jig. 600. in p. 864. ; and the plate in our Second 



Volume. 



Spec. Char., Sec. 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. (Lindl. Bot. Reg., 

 t. 1 847.) The native country of this species is uncertain ; and it is, 

 probably, only a hybrid between the common hawthorn and the azarole, 

 or some other European species. It forms a very handsome, somewhat 

 fastigiate, or pyramidal, dense-headed, low tree ; producing its leaves and 

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

 autumnal frosts. The fruit resembles the common haw, but is narrower 

 and longer, and the colour is a rich crimson. The species was intro- 

 duced in 1816; but it is not common in collections. There are fine trees 

 of it in the Garden of the London Horticultural Society, where it is 

 extremely ornamental, both when covered with flowers in May, and with 

 ripe fruit in September and October. 



xii. Qxyacantha. 



Sect. Char. Leaves obovate, trifid, or variously cut. Flowers numerous, in 

 corymbs. Fruit generally red. 



24-. C. OXYACA'NTHA L. The sharp-thorned Cratsegus, or common 



Hawthorn. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 683.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 600. : Baxt. Brit FL PI 



2. t.'HS. 

 Syiuniyinrs. The Pyracantha of the Greeks; 3/espilus Oxyacantha Gicrtii., and .V. Du Haw 



E'pine blanche, noble E'pine, Bois de Mai, Scuelleir Aubt'pine, Neflier AuWpine, Fr. ; Hage- 



dorn gcmeiner Weissdorn, Gcr. ; Hagetoon, Dan. ; Hagetorn, Sired. ; Bianco-spino, Ital. ; 



Espino bianco, Span. ; White Thorn, Maybush, (Juick, Quickset, May. 

 Engraving* Ga-rtn. l-'nu-t., 2. t. 87. ; Eng. Bot, t. 2054. ; Baxt Brit. Fl. PL, ,t. 18. ; fig. 602. in 



; and the plate in our Second Volume. 

 Derivation. Booth derives the word Haw from hagr, or htrg t a hedge; consequently he makes 



hawthorn signify hedgethorn. Quirk signifies live; and was, probably, applied, from live hedges 



