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LANCE-LEAVED HAWTHORN. 
CRATiEGUS arborescens, inermis, foliis lanceolatis inciso- 
serratis utrinque acutis rariter sublobatis glabris subtus 
ad venis puberulis, corymbis multifloris, calicibus pilosis 
laciniis subulatis integris, floribus pentagynis. 
Crat-EGUs arborescens. Elliott. Sketch., vol. 1. p. 550. Torr. 
and Gray, Flor. N. Amer., vol. 1. p. 466. 
According to Elliott this species becomes a tree of 
20 to 30 feet in height, with spreading branches. The 
fruit is globose, quite small and red. Of the quality of 
the wood nothing is yet known; but nearly all the ar- 
borescent species are of slow growth, and have whitish 
close-grained, very hard, and durable wood; that of the 
Common Hawthorn, (C. oxycantha,') is tough, and in 
England is used occasionally for axletrees and handles 
of tools. 
The Lance-leaved Thorn of Mr. Elliott was found on 
the borders of the Ogeechee river, in Georgia, near Fort 
Argyle, and near New Orleans, and in Texas by Drum- 
mond and Berlandier. It is without armature. The 
leaves are lanceolate, acute at each end, deeply serrated, 
smooth both above and beneath, except some small 
tufts of hairs at the divisions of the veins, sometimes 
slightly lobed towards the summit, (though not at all 
in our specimen.) The flowers are small, the calyx 
hairy at the base, with the segments small and subulate. 
To show the great age to which the Common Haw- 
thorn attains, Withering states of the variety called 
the Glastonbury Thorn, existing in his time, in a lane 
by the churchyard of the abbey, (1801,) “It appears to 
be a very old tree. An old woman of 90 never remem- 
