NAT. ORDER. 
Pomaceas. 
CRAT^GUS OXYACANTHA. ROSE-COLORED HAWTHORN. 
Class XII. Icosandria Order II. Di-Pentagynia. 
Gen, Char. Tube, pitcher-shaped. IAmb, in five divisions. Cor- 
' olla petals, subrotund. Stamens, seated on a glandular ring, 
within the calyx. Styles, from two to five, smooth. Fruit, a 
fleshy pome, somewhat globular, closed, five-celled. Seeds, 
single or two together in each cell. Shell, bony. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, small. Branches, spreading. 
The root is long, angular, tough, fibrous, spreading, and of a pale 
yellowish color; the stem is upright, smooth, of a pale red color, 
and rises from three to seven feet in height ; the leaves are rather 
smaller, and not so deep a green as the common sorts ; the growth 
is very irregular, the branches spreading obliquely upwards or hori- 
zontal, with points drooping, thickly set with flower-bearing spurs 
along their whole length. Their habit, in other respects, is like the 
common hawthorn. 
The hawthorn is called white thorn and maythom ; in France, 
Aubepine ; in Germany, hagedorn ; in Italy, branco spino. It is a 
shrub, found in various parts of the United States and Europe, and 
is introduced into narrow plantations, as an undergrowth. We have 
long had the common scarlet flowering Hawthorn in our shrubberies ; 
and many of the wild ones, like the double white variety, may be 
seen to die off a bluish tint. But our subject is much more deeply 
vivid rose color than any other, and no less conspicuous in this re- 
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