~ Jeaves, downy beneath, especially at the axilla, and black 
fruit: this may be called C. platyphylla. The third form 
is the subject of this article, to which undoubtedly belongs 
‘the double Hawthorn of the Gardens; and also, as a re- 
markable variety, the C. triloba of Persoon: it has pecu- 
liarly loose cymes of flowers, and cuneate, obtuse leaves. 
A handsome hardy shrub, or small tree, native of the 
neighbourhood of Paris, according to Thuillier and De- 
candolle, and probably of most parts of Europe; where it 
is to be expected that it has been confounded with 
C. oxyacantha. The plant from which our drawing was 
made flowered last May, in the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society, to which establishment it had been presented by 
Messrs. Loddiges. It is propagated by budding or graft- 
ing upon the common Hawthorn. 
Leaves quite smooth, cuneate, obtuse, 3-lobed, ser- 
rated, sometimes almost spatulate, occasionally on the 
strong branches 5-lobed and acute ; stipule half sagittate, 
dentate, without glands. Cymes loose, corymbose, many- 
flowered. Pedicels filiform, smooth ; and the ovaria, which 
are downy and oblong, free from glands. Lowers white, 
sweet-scented, with two styles. 
J.L. 
