844- ARBORETUM AND FKUTICETUM. PART III. 



appearance and mode of growth. It grows readily by cuttings, or by bud- 

 ding or grafting. Against a wall in the Horticultural Society's Garden, it 

 is completely evergreen. 



xv. Pyracdjitha. 



Sect. Char. Leaves oval-lanceolate, glabrous, entire, small, evergreen. Fruit 

 numerous, of a bright coral colour. 



* 28. C. PYRACA'NTHA Pers. The fiery Thorn, or Pyracantha. 



Identification. Pers. Syn., 2. p. 37. ; Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. p. 29. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 626. ; Don's Mill., 2. 

 p. 598. 



Synonymes. A/espilus Pyracfentha L. ; evergreen Thorn ; Buisson ardent, Fr. ; imraergriine Mis- 

 pel, Ger. 



Engravings. Lob. Icon., 2. p. 182. f. 1.; Pall. Fl. Ross., 1 13. f. 2. ; N. Du Ham., 2. t. 20. No. 2. ; and 

 our fig. 561. 



Spec. Char.y Sf-c. Evergreen. Leaves glabrous, ovate-lanceo- .^v^f 561 

 late, crenate. Lobes of the calyx obtuse. Styles 5. Fruit 

 globose, scarlet, ornamental ; continuing a good while upon 

 the plant ; which, on account of the colour of its fruit, and 

 of its being a shrub, is called, in France, buisson ardent. 

 (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 626.) An evergreen shrub, a native of 

 rugged places and hedges in the south of Europe. Intro- 

 duced in 1629; flowering in May, and producing abun- 

 dance of fruit, which are very ornamental, and remain on 

 all the winter ; especially when the shrub is trained against 

 a wall. The berries are bitter, and are not so greedily 

 eaten by birds, as those of some other kinds, unless in very severe winters. 

 The plant is very hardy, and, in the open garden, forms a handsome ever- 

 green bush ; but it has been used since its first introduction chiefly for 

 clothing naked walls; and no plant has a more showy appearance in winter, 

 when it is covered with its brilliant scarlet berries, which has given rise to 

 its French name of buisson ardent, or the burning bush. It thrives in any 

 soil that is dry, and in a northern as well as a southern exposure. It is 

 propagated by seeds or cuttings ; but the strongest plants are obtained by 

 budding it on the common thorn ; and, if grafted standard high, it would 

 form a most desirable evergreen low tree. 



Variety. 



* C.P.2 crenulata, C. crenulata Roxb. MSS., Lindl. in Lin. Trans , 13. 

 p. 106., Don's Mill., ii. p. 598. ; Mespilus crenulata D. Don, Prod., 

 p. 238. ; is a native of Nepal. There is a plant of this variety in 

 the Garden of the Horticultural Society ; where it was raised from 

 seed in 1830, and now forms a bush 2 ft. high. 



xvi. Glauca. 

 Sect. Char. Evergreen. Leaves elliptic, downy and glaucous beneath. 



1 29. C. GLAU'CA Wall. The glaucous-leaved evergreen Thorn. 



Identification. Wall. Cat, 673. ; Lodd. Cat, ed 1830, and 1836. 

 Engravingt. Fig*. 562, 563. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves elliptic, tapering to both ends, acute, serrulated at 

 the apex, downy and glaucous beneath, but glabrous above. Corymbs ter- 

 minal, many-flowered. Calyx woolly. Flowers white. (Don's Mill., ii. 

 p. 598.) A native of Nepal, where it forms an evergreen tree, 20 ft. high. 

 Plants of it were raised from seed, in the Garden of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society, in 1828, one of which has stood as a bush in the open garden 

 upwards of 5 years, and is nearly evergreen ; and another, which has stood 

 against a wall for the same period, is completely evergreen. The latter 



