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MESPILUS. 
The MEDLAR-TREE. 
Clafs 12. Orders Icofandria Pentagynia. 
r T 1 HE Empalement is one leaved, concave-fpreading, five tooth- 
■*- ed, and permanent. 
The Corolla has five petals, roundifh, concave, and inferted in 
the calyx. 
The Filaments are twenty, awl-fhaped and inferted in the calyx. 
The Antherce are fimple. 
The Germenis beneath. The Styles are five, (often lei's) fimple 
and erett. The Stigmas are headed. 
The Seed-veJJel is a berry, globofe, mnbilicated, and covered 
with the calyx, but fomewhat perforated at the apex. 
The Seeds are five, bony and gibbous. 
j The Species, with us , are , 
* Armed with "Thorns 
i. Mespilus coccinea. Cockfpur-Ha'wthorn . 
This rifes generally to the height of ten or twelve 
feet, with a pretty ftrong ftem, dividing into feveral 
branches, which are armed with ftrong thorns, bent 
downwards like a cock’s fpur. The leaves are fome- 
what oval, but fpreading into angles, fawed on their 
edges, and fmooth. The flowers come out at the 
extremities and Tides of the branches in umbels, 
they are pretty large and are fucceeded by fruit near- 
ly as large as a fmall cherry and of a fine red colour 
when ripe. 
There is a variety of this without thorns, with, 
leaves deeper fawed on their edges, and not fo deep- 
ly veined, otherwife of the fame growth and ap- 
pearance. 
2. Mespilus 
