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CRATALGUS oxyacanthoides. 
Wedge-leaved Hawthorn. 
ES a 
ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacrem. Tribus Pomacece. iat: 
CRATAGUS Lindl. Calycis tubus urceolatus, limbus 5-fidus. Petala 
patentia, orbiculata. Ovariwm 2-5-loculare. Styli totidem glabri, Pomum 
carnosum, ovatum, dentibus calycis vel disco incrassato clausum, putamine 
osseo,-—Frutices spinosi. Folia angulata aut dentata. Corymbi terminales. 
Bracteze subulate, decidue. Dec. prodr. 2. 626. © 
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. oxyacanthoides ; foliis cuneatis obtusis apice. trilobis serratis glabris 
utrinque concoloribus, floribus corymbosis digynis, calycibus eglandulosis _ 
ovario pubescente. 
a. flore simplici. 
C. oxyacantha, Fl. Danica, tab. 634. 
C. oxyacanthoides. Thuillier, fl. Par. 245. 
‘© Mespilus oxyacantha integrifolia. Wallr. sched. 219.” 
Mespilus oxyacanthoides. Decand. fl. tr. 4.433. 
C. oxyacantha, obtusata. Decand. prodr. 2. 628. 
&. flore pleno. : 
C. oxyacantha plena. Hort. 
y. foliis pubescentibus. 
C. triloba. Pers. ench. 2. p.37. Dec. prodr. 2, 630. 
Folia glaberrima, cuneata, obtusa, 3-loba, serrata, nunc subspaéulata, 
nunc in ramulis vegetioribus 5-loba, acuta ; stipule semi-sagittate, dentate, 
eglandulose. Cymi lazz, corymbost, multiflort. Pedicelli Jiliformes, glabrz, 
ovariaque oblonga, pubescentia, eglandulosa. Flores albi, digynt, odor. 
Variable as is the European Hawthorn, it is distinguish- 
able into about three principal forms, which represent as 
many Botanical species. Of these, the first, with deeply 
pinnatifid leaves, round smooth ovaria, and compact 
cymes, is the true C. oxyacantha; to which are to be 
referred as varieties, C. laciniata of Besser, the pink and 
yellow-berried Hawthorns of the Gardens, and the C. mono- 
eyna of various authors, with their synonyms. A second. 
form is the C. fissa of some of the English Gardens, but 
not of Bosc, which has broad, deeply cut, pinnatifid 
