HAWTHORN. 
Natural Order , Rosacea, (sub-order, Pome^e, Jussieu.) 
Linnxan Classification , Icosandria, Di — Pentagynia. 
CRxlTiEGUS, (Linn., excluding some species.) 
Adnate calyx tube urceolate, with a 5-cleft border. Petals 5, 
orbicular. Stamens 15 or more. Styles 3 to 5, (rarely 1.) 
Pome or apple fleshy, ovate or globose, closed and crowned 
with the persisting teeth of the calyx, and containing 2 to 5 
hard 1-seeded nuts. 
These are spiny shrubs or small trees, almost exclusively in- 
digenous to Europe and the United States of America, with 
simple, angularly lobed, incised, or toothed leaves, furnished with 
stipules of somewhat different forms on the fertile or infertile 
branches. Flowers white, in terminal corymbs, sometimes soli- 
tary. Bractes subulate, deciduous. The fruit rather small, 
sweet, or agreeably acidulous. 
RED THORN, or SIBERIAN HAWTHORN. 
CRATiEGUS sanguinea, spinosa,foliis septangulis serratis 
basi productis petiolis submar ginatis. Pallas, Flora Ros- 
sica, vol. 1. p. 25. tab. 11. (very good.) 
Crataegus sanguinea, leaves broadly obovate, somewhat cune- 
ate at the base, incised and serrate, often slightly 5 to 7 lobed, 
a little pubescent when young, on short petioles, at length co- 
riaceous and shining; corymbs glabrous or somewhat pubes- 
cent; segments of the calyx entire, and, as well as the pedi- 
cels, not glandular; styles 3-4; fruit globose. Torre y and 
Gray, Flora N. Amer., vol. 1. p. 464. 
& Douglasii , spines short and stout (long in cultivation, Lou- 
don ); fruit small, dark purple. 
