362 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves with the disk broadly ovate, unequally serrated, and 
glabrous; the petioles bearing a few glands. Sepals with glanded serratures. 
Peduncle and calyx a little villose. Seeds 2 in a pome. (Dec. Prod.) A 
low tree. North America. Height 15 ft. to 20ft. Introduced in 1818, 
or before. Flowers white; May and June. Fruit scarlet. 
Differs from the preceding variety in having broader and shorter leaves, a 
more compact and fastigiate habit of growth, and rather more thorns on the 
branches. The leaves of this and the preceding kinds die off of a much 
deeper red than the narrow-leaved ‘varieties, which often drop quite green, 
yellow, or of a yellowish red. 
§v. Nigre. 
Sect. Char. Leaves middle-sized, deeply lobed. Lobes pointed. Fruit round, 
black or purple. Tree rather fastigiate, with few.or no spines. Bark 
smooth. 
¥ 9. C.nt'cra Waldst. et Kit. The black-fruited Thorn. 
Identification, Waldst. et Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung., t. 61.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 599. 
Synonymcs. Méspilus nigra Willd. Enum. 524.; C. carpatica Lodd. Cat. 7 he 
Engravings. Waldst. et Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung., t. 61. ; fig. 694. in p. 392. ; the plate of this species in 
Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vi.; and our fig. 646. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves sinuately lobed, and serrated, somewhat wedge- 
shaped, though truncately so, at the hase ; whitely villose beneath. Stipules 
oblong, serrately cut. Calyxes villose; the lobes slightly toothed. Styles 
5. Fruit black. (Dec. Prod.) A low tree. Hungary. Height 15 ft. to 
20 ft., throwing up numerous suckers from its widely spreading roots, which 
soon cover the ground with a forest of bushes. In England, where it is 
generally propagated by grafting on the common thorn, it forms a very 
handsome, upright, somewhat fastigiate tree, from 20 ft. to 30 ft. high, put- 
ting forth its leaves, in mild seasons, in February or March. Introduced in 
1819, Flowers white; April and May. Fruit black; ripe in July and 
August. 
Variety. C. fisca Jacg., judging from a seedling plant in the Hort. Soc. 
Garden, appears to belong to this species. 
Nightingales are said to be attracted by this tree, probably because it is par- 
ticularly lable to be attacked by insects, and because numerous caterpillars 
