Crataegus i735 



found as conglomerations of slender branches on old trees.^ A weeping tree ' at 

 Edinburgh, reputed to be over 300 years old and a favourite of Queen Mary, 

 survived till 1836 ; and from it was propagated a form known as van regince, or 

 Queen Mary's Thorn. 



Var. pendula variegata, a weeping form with variegated leaves ; and var. pendula 

 rosea, a weeping shrub with pink flowers, are also in cultivation. 



4. Vzr.ferox, Schneider, Laubholzkunde, i, 781 (1906), 



Craiagus oxyacantha, vzx. ferox, Carrifere, in Rev. Hort. 1859, p. 348. 



Cratagus oxyacantha, var. horrida, Carriere, in Flore des Serres, xiv. 201, t. 1468 (186 1) ; Kegel, 

 in Act. Hort. Petrop. i. 119 (1870); Lynch, in Gard. Chron. xxiv. 13, fig. 5 (1898). 



Branches pendulous, and armed with tufts of several spines. Carriere, who was 

 unaware of the origin of this variety, states that seedlings raised from its seeds in 

 the Jardin des Plantes at Paris reverted to the ordinary form. 



5. Var. stHcta, Nicholson, Kew Hand-list Trees, 205 (1894). 

 Crataegus oxyacantha, var. strkta, Loudon, Arb. et Frtit. Brit. ii. 832 (1838). 



Fastigiate in habit, with upright branches. This was discovered in 1826 in a 

 bed of seedlings in Ronalds's nursery at Brentford, and was said by Loudon to 

 resemble the Lombardy poplar in shape. A tree so named at Kew, about 20 ft. 

 high, is pyramidal, with ascending branches, but is not fastigiate. The truly fastigiate 

 form is sold by Smith of Newry and by Spath of Berlin. 



6. Var. ramulis aureis, Nicholson, Kew Hand-list Trees, 205 (1894). 

 Var. xanthoclada, Zabel, ex Spath, Cat. No. 148, p. 91 (1911-1912). 



Branchlets of a bronze colour, conspicuous in winter. A shrub of this at 

 Kew, obtained from Simon- Louis in 1885, is about nine feet high. 



B, Differing from the type in foliage. 



7. Two variegated forms, mentioned by Loudon, — wax.foliis argenteis, leaves 

 mottled with white, and vzx. foliis aureis, leaves variegated with yellow, — are still in 

 cultivation, but are of little ornamental value. 



8. Var. laciniata, Dippel, Laubholzkunde, iii. 459 (1893). 



Cratcegus oxyacantha, var. laciniata, Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. ii. 830 (1838); Regal, in Act. 

 Hort. Petrop. i. 119 (1870). 



Leaves deeply pinnatifid, with irregularly serrated lobes. This occurs in 

 hedgerows, in company with the typical form. F. A. Lees states ^ that in York- 

 shire, Worcestershire, Lincolnshire, and Berkshire, it flowers much less freely than 

 the other forms. 



9. Ya.r. filicifolia, Koehne, Deut. Dend. 238 (1893). 



Cratcegus oxyacantha, war. Jilicifolia, Van Houtte, Flore des Serres, xx. 51, t. 2076 (1874). 



Leaves broad, fan-shaped, deeply divided into numerous curled segments. 

 This beautiful variety, which . resembles Adiantum farleyense in foliage, does not 



1 Cf. Loudon, Gard. Mag. ix. 596 (1833). 



2 Figured by Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. ii. 833, "fig. 556 (183S). 



' Flora W. Yorkshire, 231 (1888). It is recorded for Warwickshire by Bagnall, Flora of Warwickshire, 107 (1891). 



