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backwards; they are about four inches long, and three and a halt" 

 broad, having five or six pair of strong nerves, and become of a 

 brownish-red in autumn. The flowers come out from the sides of 

 the branches in umbels or large clusters; they are large, make a 

 noble show early in May, and are succeeded by large fruit of a 

 bright scarlet colour, which ripens in August or September. The 

 branches are marked with irregularly scattered dots; thorns axillary, 

 stout, spreading very much from the rudiments of the branches. 

 Peduncles pubescent, corymbed. 



3. Crataegus crus galli, or cockspur hawthorn. Leaves subses- 

 sile, glittering, coriaceous; calycine leaflets, lanceolate subserrate; 

 floivers, two-styled. 



Stem strong, ten to fifteen feet high, bark of the stem rough, of 

 the branches smooth and reddish. Leaves lanceolate, three inches 

 long, and about one inch broad in the middle, serrate, of a lucid 

 green, alternate; at many of the joints are smaller leaves in clus- 

 ters; thorns axillary, very strong, two inches in length, and bending 

 like a cock's-spur. Flowers axillary, in roundish clusters, gene- 

 rally two together, petals white, with a blush of red; styles three; 

 fruit globular, of a red colour. It flowers the latter end of May. 



5. Crataegus tomentosa, or woolly leaved hawthorn. Leaves 

 wedge-form-ovate, serrate, somewhat angular, villose underneath. 



This has a slender shrubby stem about six or seven feet high, 

 sending out many irregular branches, armed with long slender 

 thorns. The flowers are small, proceeding from the sides of the 

 branches, sometimes single, and at other times two or three upon 

 the same peduncle, having large leafy calyxes, and being succeeded 

 by small roundish fruit. The flowers appear the latter end of May, 

 and the fruit ripens in September. 



5. Crataegus cordata, or maple-leaved hawthorn. Leaves cordate- 

 ovate, gash-angled, smooth, petioles and calyxes without glands; 

 flowers five-styled. 



This rises with a strong woody stem about five or six feet high, 

 sending out many spreading branches which incline to a horizontal 

 position. Leaves different in form, some indented at the petiole, 

 others not: they are generally about an inch and a half long, and 

 nearly of the same breadth in the middle, ending in acute points, 

 and their borders cut into several acute parts, which are sharply 

 serrate; they are of a bright green, and stand on very slender 

 petioles, about an inch in length. The branches are armed with a 

 few pretty long slender spines. The flowers come out in small 

 bunches from the sides of the branches; stamens eight; styles four; 

 fruit round, containing two seeds. 



Branches spotted with white; leaves cut into three, five, or seven 

 segments, accuminate, the size of birch -leaves. Petiole very slen- 

 der, shorter than the leaves: corymb compound: bractes at the 

 base of the peduncles, solitary, subulate, very small, deciduous: 

 flowers somewhat smaller than the European hawthorn: teeth of 

 the calyx very short, obtuse, falling oft' when the fruit is ripe: 

 styles five: fruit an oblate spheroid, scarlet, the size of a red cur- 



