WHITE THORN. 



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Genus Crataegus Lindl. 



Linn. Syst. Icosandria 

 De-pentagynia. 



Crataegus Owyacantha, Lindl. 

 WHITE THORN. 



Crataegus Oocyacantha. 



Mespilus Oxyacanilia. 



Linn, sp.pl. 683. 



Hook, Fl. Scot. 151. 



Loudon's Arb. Brit, part in. ch. xlii. p. 839. 



Smith's Eng. Flor. ii. p. 359. 



The White Thorn has so long been accustomed to rank 

 as a mere hedge plant, that its introduction into a work 

 like the present, professing to treat of forest-trees, may, 



