supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 253 



for having its bracts collected into a whorl, or evea grown toge- 

 ther into a little involucre." 



Rosacea. 



1528. POTENTI'LLA L. [gard. 542: 



*13613o mollissima Lehm. softest-feaved ^ A or IJ jl.s Y Europe 1832 S co Mannd's bot 



A free-flowering and showy sort of Potentilla, raised from 

 seeds sent from the Berlin Botanic Garden. Mr. Maund has 

 some doubt whether it is a distinct species : he sa^'s, " It 

 approaches near to Potentilla ThomaszV of Tenore, and, pro- 

 bably, may be the identical plant." It ripens seeds, and requires 

 no peculiarity of management. {Bot. Gard., April.) 



tlSOfi. CRATjE^GUS 12908 microcarpa Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846. ; C. spathulaU Elliot, FL S. Carol, i. p. 525. ; 

 Arb. brit. t. 31. k. ; not of Michaux nor ofPursh. 



Spec. Char. Subspinose ; leaves in fascicles, oblong-cuneated, 

 3-cleft, lobed and crenated, smooth, shining; corymbs many- 

 flowered ; calyx smooth ; segments ovate, quite entire ; fruit 

 ovate subrotund, smooth, 5-celled; stone thin. [Lmdl.) 



" Few hardy plants are more deserving of general admiration, for the neat 

 ness of their foliage, the diversity of their manner of growing, the beauty of 

 their flowers in tlie spring, or the gay appearance of their numerous richly 

 coloured haws in the autumn than the various species of the genus Cratae^gus ; 

 and yet they are little known, except to the curious collector. They are not 

 very frequently seen in gardens, if we except a few varieties of the common 

 hawthorn ; and botanists themselves have paid them but little attention. I 

 therefore propose to avail myself of the circulation of this work for the pur- 

 pose of bringing the subject into more notice, and of showing how very well 

 deserving the species of Cratae^gus are of general cultivation ; but, as they are 

 very much alike in flower, and as their strongest claims to be considered orna- 

 mental plants arise from the beauty of their leaves and fruit, it is in the latter 

 state that they will generally be represented. C. microcarpa is, according to 

 Elliot, a native of the upper districts of Georgia and Carolina j in Colombia 

 county, Georgia, common, growing to a small tree, from 12 ft. to 15 ft. high. 

 It was also collected in an unusually spiny state by Mr. Drummond, in the 

 province of Texas. Elliot confounds it with C. spathulata, which, as described 

 by Michaux and Pursh, must be a different species in the way of C. parvifolia, 

 and aUied to C. virginiana of the EngHsh nurseries. In this country, C. micro- 

 carpa is a small tree, with slender, smooth, drooping branches, and something 

 of the habit of the white thorn. Its leaves have a very handsome appearance, 

 and are remarkably shining and deep green ; they usually grow in clusters ; have 

 a long stalk, tapering upwards into a blade, which is sometimes nearly entire, 

 with only a tooth or two at the end ; sometimes they are .3-lobed with cre- 

 nated segments ; and occasionally they are deeply 3-parted ,- their form is 

 always more or less spathulate. The stipules of the more vigorous branches 

 are large and leafy. The flowers are white, and appear in May, or the begin- 

 ning of June, at the same time with those of C. cordata, and later than most 

 others. The fruit is rather abundant, but small ; and, although bright red, 

 does not make much show upon the branches. The sides of the stones of the 

 fruit are unusually thin for a Cratse^gus." (^Bot. Reg., April.) 

 12923 heteroph,f 11a Bot. reg. 1. 1161. and 1. 1847 



Spec. Char. Leaves bright, falling off" late, lanceolate-cu- 

 neate, toothed at the apex, 3-cleft, pinnatifid, segments serrated; 

 tube of calyx fusiform ; cymes many-flowered ; flowers 1 -styled; 

 fruit ovate, including one nut, with a hard bony shell, and ohq 

 seed ; stipules large, pinnatifid. {Li?idl.) 



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