XXVI. ROSA‘CEL: CRATE GUS, 383 
§ xiil. Parvifolie. 
Sect. Char. Leaves small, ovate, serrated or notched, but scarcely lobed. 
Fruit green, or greenish yellow ; rather large, hard. 
& 25. C. parvIFO'LIA Ait. The small-leaved Thorn. 
Identification, Ait. Hort. Kew., 2. p. 169. ; Dec. Prod., %. p. 627. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 598. 
Synonymes. is Hus axles Fark Syn, Pes M bomentoea Potr. Dict. 4. p. 443, 3; M. xan- 
carpos Lin. fil. Suppl. .; M. parvifdlia Wats. Dend. it. 5 ¥ in. 
682., Trew Ehr. t.17.; C. uni- ¥ ediss Grate: gus tomentsa Lie Sp 
fldra Du Rot; C. turbinata y 
Pursh; C. viridis, axillaris, be- 
tulifdlia, flérida, linearis, Lodd. 
Cat. ; Gooseberry-leaved Thorn; 
Lord ley’s Thorn. 
Engravings. Trew Ehr., t. 17.3 
end. Brit., t.65.; our fig. 671. ; 
and fig. 727. in p. 402. 
Spec. Char., Sc. Leaves 
oval-lanceolate, incisely 
serrated, and pubescent. 
Flowers mostly solitary. 
Branchlets and calyxes 
villose. Stipules bristle- 
like. Sepals serrated. 
Fruit almost top-shaped, 
yellow, or yellowish 
green. Nuts 5. (Dec. 
Prod.) A low shrub. se aaa 
North America, New Jersey to Carolina, in sandy shady woods. Heigh 
4 ft. to 6ft. Introduced previously to 1713. Flowers white; May and 
June, ‘rather later than in most other spe- ’ 
cies. Haws large, greenish yellow; ripe in 
November, often hanging on the tree all g 
the winter. 
rie 
Varieties. 
£ C. p. 2 flirida, C. florida Lodd. Cat. 
(fg. 726. in p.402., and our jig. 
672.), has the leaves and fruit some- 
what smaller and rounder than those 
of the species. pi! 
2 C. p. 3 grossulariafolia, C. linearis 
Lodd. Cat. ( fig. 728. in p.402., and our jig. 673.), has the 1eaves 
lobed, and somewhat like those of the gooseberry. 
These varieties run so much into 
one another, that, unless they are 
seen together in a living state, as 
in Messrs. Loddiges’s arboretum, 
it is difficult to distinguish them 
from the species, or from each 
other ; for, however different the 
leaves may appear in our figures 
(see p. 402.), all the forms of these 
may occasionally be found on the 
same plant: and some plants of 
each variety are wholly without 
spines, while in others the spines 
are very numerous. As all of them 
are small plants, with flowers large / 
in proportion to the size of the a 673. P. grossularcfoti . - 
leaves, they are well adapted for exemplifying the genus Cratze‘gus in a minia- 
ture arboretum. 
672. C. p. flérida. 
