Pl.ex.cal 57. POMACES. 346. Crataegus. 5Q5 



or 4 ; pome red, floury, astringent. — Plants bear lopping, 

 and do not kill grass growing under them ; timber tough, 

 smooth, hard; charcoal used for gunpowder; fruit when 

 rotten ripe eatable. 



2. CratcBgiis torminnlis. Griping haivthorn. 



Leaves heartshape, ovate, 7-lobed, deeply serrate ; lowest 

 lobes divaricating, bald ; flowers corymbose. 



Mespilus apii folio, sylvestris, non spinosa, seu Sorbus torminalis, Raii 

 Syn. 453, 2. 



Sorbus torminalis, Ger.em. 1471,2; Persoon Sj/n. 2,38. 

 Sorbus torminalis seu vulgaris. Park. 1420. 

 Cratsegus torminalis, Lin. S. P. 681. 

 Pyrus torminalis, Smith Fl, Brit. 532. 

 Pirus torminalis, Stokes Bot. Med. Med. 121. 

 Wild-service tree. fVild sorb-apple. 



Woods and hedges ; arborescent ; April and May. 

 Bark smooth ; leaves unequally 7-lobed ; petioles long ; 

 corymhus branched, many-flowered ; pome dotted, austere. 



III. 347. MESPILUS. Theophrastus. Medlar, 



Calyx 5-cut; petals 5; styles 2 to 5; pome spherical, 

 5-celled ; cells 2-seeded, bony ; seeds ascending. 



a. Leaves angular ; stipules large, leaflike. 



1. Mespilus dlgyna. Tivo-styled medlar. 

 Stem spinous ; leaves bald, 3-cut, blunt, toothed ; flowers 



rather corymbose ; peduncles and calyx rather smooth ; 

 calyx-segments lanceolate, pointed, 



Crataegus Oxyacantha, JVilld. S. P. 1005. 

 Mespilus Oxyacantha, Gartner Fr.etSem. 2,43. 

 Crataegus Oxyacanthoides, De Candolle Fl. Gall. 368T. 

 Mespilus Oxyacantha 3, I'Vith. Bot. Arr. 561. 



Hedge rows ; arborescent ; May and June. 

 Branches bald, thorny j leaves bald; floiuers white or 

 rose-coloured ; herry red. 



2. Mespilus monogyna. One-style medlar. 

 Stem spinous ; leaves bald, S-cut, lobes pointed, serrate ; 



flowers corymbose ; pedimcles and calyx downy, calyx- 

 segments lanceolate, pointed, reflected: style 1. 



Mespilus apii folio sylvestris spinosa, sive Oxyacantha, Raii Sj/«. 453,3. 



Oxyacanthus, Ger.em. 1327, 1. 



Spina appendix vulgaris. Park. 1025. 



CratsEgus monogyna, Sibthorp Fl. Ox, 456. 



Mespilus Oxyacantha, Smith Fl. Brit. 2, 529. 



Hawthorn. White thorn. May. 



