POPULAR FLORA. 151 



Moss R., R. centifolia, var. mutcdsa. China R., R. Indica. 



White R., R. alba. Cherokee R. at the South, R. kemghta. 



Yellow R., R. lutea. Multiflora R., R. muUiflora. 



Hawthorn. OraSegus. 



. Calyx with a globular or pear-shaped tube coherent with the 2- to 5-ceIled ovary, making a pome 

 with as many one-seeded stones. Petals 5, roundish. Styles 2 to 5. Thorny small trees or shrubs. 

 Flowers in spring, mostly in corymbs, white, or with a red variety of the cultivated. 



1. English Hawthoun (or White Thorn). Leaves obovate, with a wedge-shaped base, lobed 



and cut; styles 2 or 3; fruit small, coral-red. Cult, for hedges and ornament. C. Oxyacdntha. 



2. Washington H. Leaves broadly ovate, truncate or a little heart-shaped at the base, often cleft or 



cut; styles 5; fruits coral-red, not larger than peas. S. C. cordaia. 



3. ScARLET-PRUiTED H. Smooth ; leaves round-ovate, thin, toothed or cut, on slender stalks : fruit 



scarlet, oval, i' in diameter. C. coccinea. 



4. Pear H. (or Blackthorn). Downy, at least when young ; leaves thickish, oval, ovate, or 



wedge-obovate, narrowed into a short or margined footstalk ; flowers large ; fruit large, crimson, or 

 orange-red, eatable. C. iomenidsa. 



5. CocKSPUK H. Smooth; leaves wedge-obovate or inversely lance-shaped, merely toothed above the 



middle, thick, shining; fruit dark red; thorns very long. C. Onis-gdUi. 



5. Summer H. Rather downy; leaves obovate or wedge-shaped, often cut; flowers few (2 to 6); 



fruit rather pear-shaped, yellowish or reddish. S. Cflava. 



Apple. Pyi'us, § Malus. 



X. Common Apple. Leaves ovate, serrate, downy beneath ; flowers white tinged with pink. Every. 



where cultivated. P. Mains. 



t. Siberian Ceab-A. Leaves ovate, serrate, smooth; calyx smooth. Cult, occasionally. P. baccata. 

 8. American Crar-A. Leaves broadly ovate or heart-shaped, cut-toothed or somewhat lobed, 



smoothish; flowers rose-color, sweet-scented; fruit greenish, fragrant (Fig. 361). Cemmon. W. 



P. coronaria. 



Mountain-Ash or Rowan Tree. Pyrus, § Sarbus. 



Both the wild and the foreign species are planted for the beauty of their bright scarlet fruits, in broad 

 compound cymes, ripe in autumn. Fl. white, summer. 



1. American M. Leaflets 13 to 15, lance-shaped, taper-pointed, smooth. Wild, N. P. Americana. 



2. European M. Leaflets shorter, broader, paler, and not pointed ; fruit larger. P. aucuparia. 



Qnince. Cyddnia. 



1. Common Quince. Flowers single at the tips of the branches, white ; lobes of the calyx leaf-like 



and downy, as well as the ovate entire leaves ; fruit pear-shaped. Cult. C. lulgaris. 



2. Japan Quince. Shrub, hardly of the same genus, for the flowers are on side spurs of the thorny 



branches, earlier than the smooth leaves ; calyx top-shaped, with short lobes ; petals large and red : 

 fruit like a small apple, very hard. Cultivated for ornament. C, Japdmca. 



