B54 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
biculate. Styles 5. Fruit scarlet, eatable. (Dec. Prod.) A low tree. North 
America, from Canada to Carolina, in hedges and woods. Height 15 ft. 
to 20{t. Introduced in 1683. Flowers white; May and June. Fruit 
large, round, or somewhat pear-shaped, scarlet ; ripe in September. De- 
caying leaves yellow, inclining to scarlet. Naked young wood dark-coloured ; 
old wood with a whitish bark. 
Varieties. It would be easy to procure as many varieties of this’ species as 
there are of the common hawthorn, by raising some thousands of plants 
every year from seed, and selecting from the seed-beds plants indicating 
any peculiarity of leaf or of habit ; but, as in the nurseries the most rapid 
way of producing saleable plants df this, and all the other species and va- 
rieties of Cratze‘gus, is found to be by grafting on the common hawthorn, 
very few seedlings are raised, and the varieties in cultivation are only the 
three or four following : — 
¥ C.c. 2 cordllina, C. corallina Lodd. Cat.; the C. pyriférmis and C. pec- 
tindta of some collections. (fig. 678. in p. 387.) — The leaves and 
the entire plant are, perhaps, rather smaller than in the species; 
the habit of the tree is decidedly more upright and fastigiate; and 
the fruit is smaller, long, and of a fine coral red ; whence the name 
is probably derived, though, in the first edition of the Hort. Soc. 
Catalogue, it is called the red-branched hawthorn. The plants at 
Messrs. Loddiges’s, however, exhibit only a slight degree of redness 
in the branches of the young wood. 
¥ C.c. 3indentata, C.indentata Lodd. Cat.; C. geérgica Doug. (fig. 678. 
in p. 387.) — The leaves are smaller, and less lobed, than those of 
the species ; the plant is also weaker, of upright habit, and with a 
smooth clear bark. It is very prolific in flowers and fruit. 
* C.c. 4 mézima Lodd. Cat. C. c. spindsa Godefroy ; C. acerifolia Hort. ; 
C. ? flabellata Hort. — The leaves are larger than those of any other 
variety ; and the fruit is also large. As we have not seen living 
plants of C’. flabellata, but only dried specimens sent from Terenure 
and the Humbeque Nursery, we are not absolutely certain that C. 
flabellata and C. c. maxima are the same; but we teel quite certain 
that they both belong to C. coccinea. We are informed that the C. 
flabellata of some nurseries is C. tanacetifolia; which certainly 
has its leaves more flabellate, or fan-like, than any variety of C. 
coccinea. 
* ¥ C.c. 5 neapolitina Hort. dMééspilus constantinopolitana Godefroy. 
— Plants were in Messrs. Loddiges’s collection in 1837. 
¥ 2.C. GLAnDULO'sa W. The glandular Thorn. 
Identification. Willd. Sp., 2. p. 1002., not of Michx.; Pursh Amer. Sept., ]. p. as a haean 
p. 627.; Don’s Mill., 2 P. 308. : ee One 
Synonymes. ? C. sanguinea Pall. Fl. Ros. 1. t.11.; ? Méspilus rotundifdlia Ehrh. Beitr. 2. p. 20.3 
Pyrus glanduldsa Mench ; C. rotundifolia Booth. 
Engravings. ? Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t.11.3 Lod. Bot. Cab., t. 1012; Dend. Brit., t. 58; our sig. 680. 
in p. 388.; the plate of this species in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vi.; and our jig. 636. 
Spec. Char., yc. _ Leaves with the disk obovate-wedge-shaped, angled, gla- 
brous, glossy. Petioles, stipules, and sepals glanded. Fruit oval, scarlet; 
nuts 4—5; flesh hard and dry. (Dec. Prod.) A low tree. North Ame- 
rica, in Canada and on the Alleghany Mountains, and also found on tke 
Rocky Mountains, Height 12ft. to 15ft. Introduced in 1750. Flowers 
white; May and June. Fruit scarlet; ripe in September. 
Varieties. 
* C.g. 2 succulénta Fisch., Méspilus succulénta Booth, has the fruit 
larger than that of the species, and succulent, juicy, and eatable. 
We have seen only one plant of this variety; but we were assured 
by the late M. Fischer of Géttingen, that there are several in the 
botanic garden there, and in various other collections in Germany. 
