XXVI. ROSA‘CEH: CRATE'GUS. 3865 
49. C. flava. 
from Virginia to Carolina. Height 15 ft. to 20ft. Introduced in .724. 
Flowers white; May. Haws yellow; ripe in October. Decaying leaves 
rich yellow. 
The flowers and the fruit are neither produced in abundance, nor make any 
great show; but the tree has a marked character from its general form, and 
the horizontal tendency of its branches. 
# 13. C.(F.) Lopa‘ta Bosc. The lobed~eaved Thorn. 
Identification. Bosc ined.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 599. 
Synonymes. Méspilus lobata Potr. Suppl. 4. p.71.; C. lutea Pozr. 
ngravings. Fig. 699. in p. 394. ; and our jig. 660. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Branches 
a little villose. Disks 
of leaves ovate, une- 
qually serrated, or 
lobed, slightly downy 
beneath, upon very 
short petioles. Sti- 
pules cut. Flowers in 
loose corymbs. (Dec. 
Prod.) A tree closely 
resembling C. flava in 
general appearance. 
Native country sup- 
osed to be America. 
eight 10 ft. to 15 ft. 
Introduced in 1819. 
Flowers white ; May. 
Fruit green ; ripe in October. 
Differing from C. flava in having some of the leaves with larger lobes, and 
some of the spines larger. The flowers are sparingly produced, amongst dense 
tufts of leaves ; and the fruit, which is green when ripe, is still less abundant. 
It is pear-shaped, and very different from that of every other kind of Cratz‘gus, 
except C. flava and C. f. trilobata. 
650. C. f. lobata. 
