. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 358 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM 640. C. macracdntha growth. The shoots straight, and tending upwards at an angle of 45". North America, and the most common species in the northern states. Height 10ft. to 30ft. Introduced in 1819. Flowers white; May and June. Fruit scarlet,
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 358 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM 640. C. macracdntha growth. The shoots straight, and tending upwards at an angle of 45". North America, and the most common species in the northern states. Height 10ft. to 30ft. Introduced in 1819. Flowers white; May and June. Fruit scarlet, rather smaller than that of C, coccinea; ripe in Sep- tember. Variety. S C. m. 2 minor {Jig. 686. in p. 390.) only differs from the species in having smaller fruit. There are plants at Somerford Hall, Staf- fordshire. Raised from American seed, in 1819, in the nursery of Messrs. Falla, at Gateshead, near Newcastle ; whence it was sent to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, under the name of the large American azarole. § iv. Crus-galli. Sect. Char, Leaves without lobes, obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, more or less serrated, and of a dark shining green, with petioles margined by the decurrence of the leaf. Fruit small, or middle-sized, round, dark green till nearly ripe, and, when ripe, scarlet. Spines very long, and bent like the spur of a cock. t 6. C. Cru's-ga'lli L. The Cock's-spur Thorn. Identiftcaticm. Lin. Sp., p. 632. i Dec. Prod., 2. p. 626.; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., i. p. 338,; Don's Mill., 2. p. 698. Svnonymes. CratiE^gus lilcida Wang. Am. f. 42., and Mill. Diet.; C. cuneifcllia Lodd. Cat.; Jl/espilu6 lacida Ehrh. Bcitr.; M. Crtis-g&Ui Poir. ; M. hyem^lis Walt.; M. cuneifdlia Mtench ; Neflier Pied de Coo, Fr.; gljinzende Mispel, Ger. \ Lazzarollo spinoso, Ital. Engravings. Wang. Am., t. 17. f. 42.; Dend. Brit., t. 66.; omfig. 687. in p. 391.; the plate of the species in Arb. Brit., iGt edit., vol. vi.; and our.^. 641. Spec. Char., S^c. Spines long. Leaves obo
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