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is by far the most showy, with its cream-coloured flowers, jast 

 bhishing where the sun strikes them." {Bot. Reg., Aug.) 

 'Kosdcece. 



5106. CRATjE^GUS 12927 tanacetiffelia, Bot. reg. t. 1884. ; Arb. brit. p. 82S. 



Spec. Char.f 8fc. Leaves pinnatifid, pubescent, cuneate at the 

 base ; segments linear, serrate with glanded teeth. Bracteas leafy, 

 pectinate, glanded, remaining under the fruit. Fruit solitary, 

 sessile, depressedly spherical, pubescent. Nut with a very thick 

 shell. Leaves pubescent, never smooth, greenish, somewhat 

 canescent, apex with sharp glandular teeth. Stipules semi- 

 sagittate, serrate. Flowers corymbose, subsessile. Fruit soli- 

 tary, sessile, yellow, depressed, subpentagynous, supported by 

 foliaceous, glandulously pectinate, persistent bracteas. Nuts or 

 stones 5, bony, with a very thick shell. 



" Obviously known from C. odoratissima and orientalis, both 

 by its yellow, solitary, sessile fruit, to which a small number of 

 leafy bracts adhere irregularly ; but also by its regularly pinna- 

 tifid leaves, the fine toothings of which are all tipped with a 

 gland." This species is a native of all the higher mountains of 

 Greece; and, according to Sir J. E. Smith, is the mespilon of 

 Dioscorides ', " a spinous tree, with leaves like hawthorn, fruit like 

 a little apple, sweet, with three hard seeds." {Bot, Reg,, Aug.) 



12928 odoratissima, Bot. reg. t. 1885 



Spec. Char., S^c. Leaves trifid and pinnatifid, incisely serrate, 

 cuneate at the base, greyly tomentose. Fruit spherical, pubescent, 

 containing 5 stones, whose shells are thin. 



Leaves greyly tomentose, afterwards greener, never smooth. 

 Stipules falcate, entire. Peduncles tomentose. Fruit brick- 

 coloured, pubescent, subpentagynous, with 5 bony stones, the 

 shell not very thick. 



" A common bush on the hills adjoining the Black Sea, and 

 elsewhere in the Crimea. It is described, by Bieberstein, as 

 growing to the size of the common hawthorn. It differs from 

 C. orientalis [our C. o. sanguinea Arb. Brit,, p. 828.], not alone 

 in the colour of its fruit, but in its leaves never becoming 

 smooth, in its stipules being small and undivided, and in the 

 stones that enclose the seeds not being particularly thick-sided." 

 {Bot. Reg., Aug.) 



The figures of this species and the preceding one are most 

 beautifully executed and coloured; and the specific character and 

 description appear to us drawn up with more than ordinary care 

 and accuracy. We are most happy to see this, because we trust 

 it will tend to spread wide a taste for a genus of ligneous plants 

 which never yet have had justice done to them. 

 Composite, § Cichordceco, §§ Hieraciece. 



*LASI'OPUS D. Don [L'asios, hairy, and pous, a foot ; in allusion to the Woolly footstalks to 



its heads of flowers.) ['i. s. 340 



*jonch61des C Don Sowthistle-like Ao^f au.o Y Armenia ? 1834 D co 8w. fl.-gard. 



Introduced by Mr. Anderson of the Chelsea Garden, from 



