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CRATA:GUS* heterophylla. 
Various-leaved Hawthorn. 
eae At, 
ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacra. 
CRATZAGUS. Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. 
C. heterophylla; foliis lucidis tardé deciduis lanceolatis cuneatis apice 
dentatis, pinnatifidisve, tubo calycis fusiformi, cymis multifloris, floribus 
monogynis, stipulis maximis pinnatifidis. 
Mespilus constantinopolitana. Hort. 
C. heterophylla. Flugge ann. mus. 12. t. 38. Decand. prodr. 2. 629. 
C. aronia. Watson dendrolog. 165. not of Willd. 
Arbor mediocris, staturd quam C. oxyacanthe, proceriore. Folia lucida, 
glaberrima, tarde decidua; prope inflorescentiam et in ramulis vetustis 
lanceolata, integerrima, v. oblonga, cuneata, apice tridentata; in ramulis 
vegetioribus pinnatifidis, serratis, subcuneatis, stipulis maximis, pinnatifidis, 
semi-cordatis. Cyme multiflore, congeste, glaberrime. Calycis tubus 
lineart-oblongus, limbus brevi-campanulatus, dentes acuminate eglandulose. 
Petala denticulata, alba. Stylus crassus, simplex. Fructus nigri, ovales 
v. fusrformes, limbo calycis persistente coronati. : 
A beautiful kind of Hawthorn, very little known in our 
English Gardens, although it has existed in collections in 
this country for many years. It is by far the handsomest 
of the white-flowered species, and is remarkable for its 
black berries in the autumn. siz 
In M. Decandolle’s Prodromus, the native country is 
supposed to be North America; but if we consider the 
little affinity that it has with any known North American 
species, and its close resemblance to C. maroccana, it 
* The xgdérasyos of the Greeks,—said to have derived its name from 
xeéros, Strength, in allusion to the toughness of its wood,—is supposed to 
have been the Azarole. Heterophylla is from ¢rsgos, various, and @vArv, 
a leaf. .. 
