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% 14. C. (f.) rRitopa‘ra Lodd. Cat. The three-lobed-/eaved Thorn. 
Identification. Lodd. Cat., edit. 1832. 
Synonyme. C. spinosissima Lee. 
Bneraving. Fig. 700. in p. 395. 
pec. Char, §e. Leaves ovate-cuneate, notched and serrated. Petioles 
slender. Surface flat, shining, somewhat veined. Branches small, thickly 
beset with slender thorns. Habit spreading. A hybrid, raised from seed 
in the Hammersmith Nursery, about 1820, or before. It forms a tree in 
general appearance resembling C. flava, but with the branches much less 
vigorous, and more thorny. The fruit is yellow, slightly tinged with red ; 
and what distinguishes it from the two allied sorts is, that its leaves die off, 
in autumn, of an intensely deep scarlet. 
§ viii, Apiifolic. 
Sect. Char. Leaves deltoid, or somewhat resembling those of the common 
thorn. The fruit is also of the same colour ; but the tree bas a totally dif- 
ferent habit, having the shoots loose and spreading, weak, and almost without 
thorns. 
¥ 15. C. apuro‘tia Miche. The Parsley-leaved Thorn. 
Identification. Michx, F]. Bor. Amer., |. p. 287., not of Med. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 627. ; Don’s Mill. 
2. p. 599, 
Siaitiies C. Oxyacintha Walt. Carol. 147.; C. apiifdlia major Lodd. Cat. 
Engravings. Fig. 702. in p. 395.; the plate in Arb. Brit., lst edit., vol. vi.; and our fig. 651. 
651. C. apiifolia. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves deltoid, cut into lobes that are acute and incisely 
toothed. Pedicels in the corymb villose, mostly simple. Tube of calyx 
villose. Sepals obscurely serrated. Fruit scarlet. (Dec. Prod.) A low 
spreading tree with flexible branches. Virginia and Carolina, in moist woods. 
Height 10 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1812. Flowers white; May and June. 
Haws scarlet; ripe in October. Decaying leaves rich yellow. 
Varety. 
¥ C. a. 2 minor, C. apiifolia Lodd. Cat. (jig. 701. in p. 395.), has the 
leaves smaller than those of the species, and’ more fringed at the 
