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4. R. blanda, Ait. (Early Wild-Rose.) Nearly unarmed, or with 

 scattered straight deciduous prickles (l°-3° high) ; leaflets 5-7, oval or oblong, 

 obtuse, pale on both sides and minutely downy or hoary beneath, serrate; stipules 

 large ; flowers 1-3, the peduncUs and calyx-tube smooth and glaucous ; fruit glo- 

 bose, crowned with the persistent erect and connivent entire calyx-lobes. — 

 Rocks and banks, Vermont to Perm, and Wisconsin, chiefly northward. May, 

 June. — Petals light rose-color. 



5. Hi rubigin6sa, L. (Sweet-Brier.) Climbing high; prickles numer- 

 ous, the larger ones strong and hooked, the smaller awl-shaped ; leaflets doubly serrate, 

 rounded at the base ; downy and clothed with fragrant russet glands beneath; fruit 

 pear-shaped or obovate, crowned with the mostly persistent calyx-lobes. — Roadsides 

 and thickets. June -Aug. (Nat. from Eu.) 



6. R. micrAntha, Smith. (Smaller-fl. S.) Prickles uniform and hooked; 

 fruit elliptical and ovate ; calyx-lobes deciduous ; flowers smaller : otherwise as the 

 last : a mere variety of it. — E. New England to Virginia. (Nat. from Eu.) 



16. CRATAEGUS, L. Hawthorn. White Thorn. 



Calyx-tube urn-shaped, the limb 5-cleft. Petals 5, roundish. Stamsns many, 

 or only 10-5. Styles 1-5. Pome drupe-like, containing 1 -5 bony 1 -seeded 

 stones. — Thorny shrubs or small trees, with simple and mostly lobed leaves, 

 and white (rarely rose-colored) blossoms. (Name from Kpdros, strength, on ac- 

 count of the hardness of the wood. ) 



* Corymbs many -flowered. 

 ■*- Fruit very small, depressed-globose (not larger than peas), bright red: flowers 

 small : calyx-teeth short and broad: styles 5 : plants glabrous (except No. 1) and 

 glandless. 



1. C. PyracAntha, Pers. (Evergreen Thorn.) Leaves evergreen, shin- 

 ing (1' long), oblong or spatulate-lanceolate, crenulate; the short petioles and 

 young branchlets pubescent ; corymbs small. — Shrub, spontaneous at Wash- 

 ington, and near Philadelphia, Isaac Martindale. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. C. spatliulata, Michx. Leaves thickish, shining, but deciduous, spatur- 

 late or oblanceolate, with a long tapering base, crenate above, rarely cut-lobed, 

 nearly sessile. — Virginia and southward. May. — Shrub 10° - 15° high. 



3. C. cordata, Ait. (Washington Thorn.) Leaves broadly ovate or 

 triangular, mostly truncate or a little heart-shaped at the base, on a slender 

 petiole, variously 3 - 5-cleft or cut, serrate. — Virginia, Kentucky, and southward. 

 June. — Trunk 15° -25° high. 



+-+- Fruit small (3' — £' long), ovoid, deep red: flowers rather large : styles 1-3. 



4. C. OxyacAntha, L. (English Hawthorn.) Smooth; leaves obovate, 

 cut-lobed and toothed, wedge-form at the base ; calyx not glandular. May. — 

 More or less spontaneous as well as cultivated. (Adv. from Eu.) 



5. C. apiifolia, Michx. Softly pubescent when young ; leaves roundish, 

 with a broad truncate or slightly heart-shaped base, pinnately 5 -7 -cleft, the 

 crowded divisions cut-lobed and sharply serrate ; petioles slender ; calyx-lobes 

 glandular-toothed> slender. — Virginia and southward. March, April 



