292 ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA 



C. glandulosa. Florul. Ceatr. p. 62. Not of JVilhl nor Mx. 

 Mespilus Azarolus major 1 Marsh. Arbust.p. 88. 



Dotted Cratjbgus. Vulgd — Thorn-bush. 



Stem 6 to 10 or 12 feet high, branched ; branches rugged, covered with a cinere- 

 ous bark,and mostly armed with stout sharp thorns 1 to 2 inches long, sometimes 

 nearly destitute of thorns, the young branches villose. Leaves an inch and half 

 lo 3 inches long, and 1 to 9 inches wide, more or less obovatc, mostly with a short 

 acuminatum, doubly serrate, and often cut into small acute serrated lobes towards 

 the apex, entire and tapering at base, hairy on both sides when young, particularly 

 on the nerves beneath, smoolhish and somewhat plicate when old ; petioles 1 fourth 

 to 3 fourths of an inch long, destitute of glands, pubescent at first, finally smoothish; 

 stipules lanceolate, glandular serrate, sometimes lobed. Corymb$ compound, many- 

 flowered, pubescent, often quite villose. Calyx-segments often glandular serru- 

 late at first, finally entire. Petals while. Styles <l or often 2, sometimes united 

 below, hirsute at base. Fruit subglobose, large (one half to '2 thirds of an inch in di- 

 ameter), and mostly 3-seeded, red, or sometimes yellow when mature, dotted, escu- 

 lent, and not unpleasant to the taste. 



Hob. Borders of woods; along Brandy wine : not unfrcquent. Ft* May. FV. Sept. 



Obs. The red-fruited variety has come more frequently under my notice ; and 

 I find the pome of that to be umbilicate at both ends. A specimen of this was mis- 

 taken for C. glandulosa, when my Catalogue was prepared. 



* * Leaves incised, and more ov less lobed. 



4. C. flava 1 Ait. Leaves ovate, or obovatc, mostly cuneate at base, 



sub-lobed and inciscd-scrrate, smooth, decurrcnt on the petiole ; petioles, 



stipules, bracts and calyx, glandular; styles 3 to 6. DC. Frodr. 2. p. 



628. 



C. glandulosa. Xtx 7 Am. 1. p. 285. Muhl? Catal.p. 48. Nutt. 



Gen. I. p. 305. Florul. Cestr. svppl.p. xv (not of p. 62.). Not! of 



mild. Beck y &c. 



C. Michauxii I Per*. St/n. 2. ]>. 38. 



Yellow Crat/k^ts. Vulgd — Black Thorn. 



Stem 4 to 6 or 8 feet high, branching; branches armed \si!h sharp thorns 1 to 

 near 2 inches in length (sometimes the thorns have short opposite brandies towards 

 the point). Leaven 2 to near 3 inches long, and 1 to 2 inches wide, acute, serrate, 

 and somewhat lobed, often with a more distinct lobe, or deeper incision mar the 

 base on each side, smooth; petioles hall" an inch to an inch long, more or less mar- 

 gined by the decurrence of the leaf, glandular on the margins ; stipules of the 

 young plant foliaceous, on short petioles, subreniform, w ith a falcate acuminalion 

 on one side, unequally glandular-serrate. Corymbs terminal on the young branches, 

 mostly few-flowered ; peduncles smoothish, bracteate at base, and often \s lib Z or 3 

 alternate bracts near the flower; bracts spatulate-lanceolate, or lance-oblong, vis- 

 cid and loosely tomentose, studded on the margin with globose pedicellate glands. 

 Calyx smooth; segments oblong-lanceolate, longer than the ovary, somewhat 

 pilose on the inner surface, incised-serrate, or laciniate, scrratures tipped with 

 glands* Petals white. Styles 3 to 5, often -1, distinct. FYuflobo?old,or pyriform, 

 large (about half an inch in diameter), 3 or 4 seeded, greenish yellow with a tinge 

 of dark red when mature, esculent, but rather insipid. 



Hub. Borders of woods; fence-rows, &c. not very common. Fl. May. />. Sept. 



Obs. Our plant does not exactly agree with the descriptions in the books ; but 

 seems lo be identical with the C. flava, in the herbarium of the Philadelphia 

 Academy. The /cares have more resemblance to those of C. coccinca, than any of 

 the others. 



