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the following species. Tt is a native of the Crimea, and the parts 
bordering on the Black Sea ; and was introduced in 1810. On ac- 
count of the colour of its fruit, and the abundance in which it is 
produced, it deserves a place in every collection. 
Readily distinguished from most other species by its very hoary branches, 
which are loose, rambling, crossing each other, and somewhat pendulous. Tt 
is late in producing its leaves, and also its flowers: the latter generally appear 
with those of C. tanacetifolia, about the end of May (in 1836, on the 17th of 
June). 
'% 22, C, ranaceTiFo'LIA Pers. The Tansy-leaved Thorn. 
Identification. Pers. Syn., 2. p.38.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 629.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 60). 
eee Méspilus tannacetifolia Potr. Dict. 4. p. 440., ‘and N. Du Ham. ; M. pinnata Dam 
Cours., Sm. Exot. t.85.; DeCandolle doubts Whether afespilus Celsi@na Dum. Cours. Suppl. 
. 286. be different from this species ; Lazzeruolo turco, Ital. P 
rhgravings. Bot. Rep., t, 591-3 Sm. Exot. Bot., t. 85.; Bot. Reg., 1884. ; fig. 710. in p. 398. ; the 
plate in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vi. ; and our jig. 658. : 
658. C. tanacetifolia. 
Spee. Char., §c. Leaves pinnatifidly cut, hairy ; lobes oblong, acute, having 
a few teeth. Scpals acutish, reflexed, hairy. Styles 5. Fruit globose, 
yellowish green. (Dec. Prod.) A robust-growing fastigiate tree, with up- 
right rigid branches, commonly terminating in thorny points. Levant. Height 
20 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 1789. Flowers white ; May and June. Haws 
large, yellow ; ripe in October. 
Varieties. 
* C. ¢. 2 glabra Lodd. (fig. 711. in p. 398.; the plate in Arb. Brit., Ist 
~ edit., vol. vi.; and our fig. 659.) has shining leaves, and fruit about 
half the size of that of the species, of a reddish yellow. A hybrid 
between C. tanacetifolia and C. Oxyacantha. Introduced from Ger- 
many about 1810. . 
# C.t.3Celsiana. Méspilus Celsiana Dumont de Cours., vol. vii. p. 286. ; 
C. t. 3 Leedna Arb, Brit. Ist ed.; C. inclsa Lee. (fig. 712. in 
p- 399.; plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit.; and our jig. 660.) — Some- 
what resembling C. orientalis ; but the leaves much larger, and more 
deeply cut, and the trees of a more robust, erect, and fastigiate habit. 
Fruit large, yellow. Cultivated by Cels, and supposed by Dumont de 
Courset to be a native of Persia or the Levant. Erroneously said 
to have been raised in the Hammersmith Nursery. A splendid tree, 
