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5 C. coccinea, L. Leaves ovate, acutely sub-lobed and incued-ser- 

 fateTthin and smooth, on long slender petioles ; peUoles and calyx 

 smooth, and somewhat glandular; styles 3 to 5. Beck, BoU p. 112. 

 Crimson Cuat*g*s. Vul^d- White Thom. 



Stem 6 to 10 or 12 feet high, with flexuose spreading rugged branches, armed 

 with touiYhickish acute thorns 1 to near 2 inches in length, and mostly a little 

 I ted S wnwards. Uates about 2 or 2 and a half inches long, and 1 to near 2 

 nones wide, acute, incised-serrate, and cutinto3or 4 small acute or acum.na e 

 ZSatTlotaa on each side, abruptly narrowed (or often truncate and a 1 itUe 

 cordaS at base, thin, smooth, and of a lively green color ; pehote, 3 fourths of an 

 incht near an nch and half long, slender, nearly smooth, w.th a few small glands 

 lion" the upper edges; stipules lance-linear, glandular-serrate. Flowers m 

 corymbs, urmTnating the young short branches ; peduncUs at first a little pubes- 

 cent, finally smoothish; bracts colored, lanceolate, or often spatulate-lanceolate, 

 gandularientate, caducous. Calyx finally smoothish ; s^^slmear-lanceo. 

 ££ denticulate and glandular on the margins. Petals white, orbicular**" ate. 

 «X 5 or okn 3, and sometimes 4. Fruit rather large (1 third to near half an 

 inch in diameter), bright purple when mature, esculent, 

 //oft. Borders of woods, and thickets: frequent. K.May. Pr. September. 



Obs. This is the most common species, with us. The thorns have more re- 

 semblance to a cock's spur, than those of the real C. crus galh. I have received 

 from Mr. Schweimtz a specimen under the name of C. viridis, which I cannot 

 distinguish from this one,-except that the petioles and peduncles are cons!dera- 

 bly pubescent. 



6. C. cordata, Ait. Leaves cordate-ovate, acuminate, incised and 

 angulate-lobed, smooth; petioles and calyx destitute oj gland*; 

 styles 5. Beck, Bot. p. 112. 



C.popuH folia. Pursh, Am. 1. p. 337. Nutt. Gen. 1. p. 305. I lorn). 

 Cestr. p. '125. JSTotf of Walt and Elliott, 

 Cordate Cuat^gus. Vu\%6— Washington Thorn. 



Stem 15 to 30 feet high, brandling; branches virgate, dark purple, armed tuU 

 long slender gradually-tapering sliarp thorns (2 to near 3 inches xn lengtn). 

 Leaves 2 to 3 indies long, and* to 2 and a half inches wide, acuminately tapering 

 to the apex, unequally incised-serrate, and cut into partial lobes, generally u t. i a 

 pretty distinct lobe on each side at the base, sometimes nearly equally Globed like a 

 maple leaf more or less cordate at base, smooth, except on the midrib and nerves 

 above, which are pilose; petioles Z fourths of an inch to ar*inch long, slend<r. 

 smoothisk, not glanduUir ; stipules of the young plant foil ace ous, subremform, 

 lobed and glandular-serrate, one of the side-lobes at base falcate. Corymbs com- 

 pound, many flowered, terminating the branches : peduncles smooth ; bracts short, 

 subulate, dentate, caducous. Calyx smootti; segments short, broad-ovate, abrupt- 

 ly acute (obtuse, Authors), slightly pubescent within, deciduous. Petals white- 

 Styles 5, mostly united below, and often nearly to the stigmas. Fruit depressed- 

 globose, small, (.about 1 fourth of an inch in diameter), brig/U purple when mature. 

 Hab. Roadsides, and fields, in hedges .-frequent. Fl. June. Ft. October. 



Obs. This species was introduced into this County, from the neighborhood of 

 Washington City, about the commencement of the present century,— and is note ex- 

 tensively used in hedging. It grows fast , in favorable situations, under good 

 management,-and will make a handsome hedge in about ten years from the time 

 of planting ; but I have observed that it does not succeed well on dry ro<:ky banksr- 

 and especially in the red shale district* of our neighboring Comties of NLoat- 



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