XXVI. ROSACEZ! CRATE GUS. 875 
§ xii. Oxyacdnthe. 
Sect. Char. Leaves otovate, trifid, or variously cut. Flowers numerous, in 
corymbs, Fruit generally red. 
* 24. C. Oxyaca’ntHa LZ. The sharp-thorned Crataegus, or common 
Hawthorn. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 683. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 600. 
synony The P. ha of the Greeks ; Méspilus Oxyacdéntha Gertn. and N. Du Ham.; 
E’pine blanche, noble E’pine, Bois de Mai, Scuelleir Aubépine, Néflier Aubépine, Fy.; Hagedorn, 
gemeiner Weissdorn, Ger.; Hagetoan, Dan. ; Hagetorn, Swed.; Acanta da siepe, Azzarolo sal- 
yatleo, and Bianco Spino, Jial.; Espino blanco, Span.; White Thorn, Maybush, Quick, Quickset, 
ay. 
Derivation. Booth derives the word Haw from hage, or heg, a hedge; consequently he makes 
hawthorn signify hedgethorn. Quick signifies live; and was, probably, applied, from live hedges 
made of hawthorn being used instead of fences of dead branches of trees. Whitethorn, from the 
profusion of its white flowers and its being thorny, or possibly from its white bark, as compared 
with that of the blackthorn, Primus spindsa. May and Maybush have reference both to the time of 
flowering of the plant, and to its use in the May or floral games. The French name Aubépine, 
refers to its flowering in spring, or in what may poetically be called the morning of the year; 
aube signifying the dawning of the day. 
Engravings. Gertn. Fruct., 2. t.87.; Eng. Bot., t. 2054.; fig. 715. in p. 400.; the plate in Arb. 
Brit., lst edit., vol. vi. ; and our fig. 662. 
662. C. Oxyacdntha. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves obovate-wedge-shaped, almost entire, or trifid or cut, 
glabrous, rather glossy. Corymbs of several flowers. Sepals glandless, 
acute. Styles 1—3. (Dec. Prod.) A shrub or low tree. Europe, com- 
mon in hedges, and varying much in different situations. Flowers white ; 
May. Haws red or scarlet; ripe in September. 
Varieties. These are very numerous, and some of them very distinct. In the 
following enumeration we have confined ourselves to such as we have ac- 
tually seen in the Hort. Soc. Garden, or in the arboretum of Messrs. 
Loddiges. 
A. Varieties differing from the Species in the general Form and Mode of Growth. 
* C. O. 2 stricta Lodd. Cat., C. O. rigida Ronadds, (the plate in Arb. Brit. , 
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