PI. ex. cal. 
57. POMACES. 346. Crataegus. 565 
or4; pome red, floury, astringent. — Plants bear lopping, 
and do not kill grass growing under them ; timber tough, 
smooth, hard; charcoal used for gunpowder; fruit when 
rotten ripe eatable. 
2. Cratcegns torminalis. Griping hawthorn . 
Leaves heartshape, ovate, 7-lobed, deeply serrate ; lowest 
lobes divaricating, bald ; flowers corymbose. 
Mespilus apii folio, sylvestris, non spinosa, seu Sorbus torminalis, Rail 
Syn. 453, 2. 
Sorbus torminalis, Gtr.em. 1471,2; Persoon Syn. 2,38. 
Sorbus torminalis seu vulgaris. Park. 1420. 
Crataegus torminalis, Lin. S. P. 681. 
Pyrus torminalis. Smith FI. Brit. 532. 
Pirus torminalis, Stakes Bot. Mat. Med. 121. 
Wild-service tree. Wild sorb-apple. 
Woods and hedges; arborescent; April and May. 
Bark smooth; leaves unequally 7-lobed; petioles long; 
corymbus branched, many-flowered ; pome dotted, austere. 
III. 347. MESPILUS. Theophrastus. , Medlar. 
Calyx 5-cut ; petals 5 ; styles 2 to 5 ; pome spherical, 
5-celled ; cells 2-seeded, bony ; seeds ascending. 
a. Leaves angular ; stipules large , leaflike. 
1. Mespilus digyna. Two~styled medlar. 
Stem spinous; leaves bald, 3-cut, blunt, toothed; flowers 
rather corymbose ; peduncles and calyx rather smooth ; 
calyx-segments lanceolate, pointed. 
Crataegus Oxyacantha, JVilld. S. P. 1005. 
Mespilus Oxyacantha, Gccrtner Fr. et Sem. 2, 43. 
Crataegus Oxyaeanthoides, De Candolle FI. Gall. 3687. 
Mespilus Oxyacantha 3, With. Bot. Art. 561. 
Hedgerows; arborescent; May and June. 
Branches bald, thorny; leaves bald; flowers white or 
rose-coloured ; berry red. 
2. Mespilus monogyna. One-style medlar. 
Stem spinous ; leaves bald, 3-cut, lobes pointed, serrate ; 
flowers corymbose ; peduncles and calyx downy, calyx- 
segments lanceolate, pointed, reflected; stifle 1. 
Mespilus apii folio sylvestris spinosa, sive Oxyacantha, Raii Syn. 453,3. 
Oxyacanthus, Ger.em. 1327, 1. 
Spina appendix vulgaris, Park. 1025. 
Cratmgus monogyna, Sibthorp FI. Ox. 456. 
Mespilus Oxyacautha, Smith FI. Brit. 2, 529. 
Hawthorn. Whitt thorn. May . 
