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AMELANCHIER* sanguinea. 



Bed-wooded Amelanchier 



ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosacea 

 AMELANCHIER 



omacece 



■ Calyx 5-dentatus, Petala lanceo- 

 lata. Ovarium decem-loculare. Ovula solitaria. Pomurn 3-5-loculare, 



endocarpio cartilagineo. Arbusculse (Europce et AmericcB septentri- 



Folia simpliciay serrata^ decidua. Flores racemosiy 

 terminales, v. laterales. Bractese lineari-lanceolatce, deciducB. Stamina 



onalis). 



compacti. 



calyce scepe breviora. Styli glabri. 

 LindL m Linn. Trans. 13. 100. 



if^ 



A. sanguinea; foliis oblongls utrinque rotundatis argute serratis semper 

 nudis, bracteis stipulisque plumosls, racemis capitatis, calycibus extils 

 glabris. 



Mespilus canadensis /3. rotundifolia. Mich.fi. hot. Am. 1. 291. 

 Pyrus sanguinea. Ph.fi. Am. sept. 1. 340. Spreng. syst. 2. 509. 

 Aronia sanguinea. Nutt. gen. I. 306. 

 Amelanchier? sanguinea. ^Decand. prodr. 2. 633. 



Frutex deciduus, 3'4'pedatis in hortOy ramis rubris^ Folia oblonga^ 

 ntrinqiie obtusay semper glabra^ argute serrulatay demilm subcoriacea (more 

 Amelanchierum). Stipulae plumosce, deciducB. Racemi terminales, coarc- 

 tati V. capitatiy glabri^ bracteis deciduis^ plumosl'S. Calyces extus glabri, 

 tntils lanaii. Petala linear i-oblong a, subcuneata. 



Fructus pisiformes, 



ovati, afropurpurei. 



A handsome hardy shrub, resembling the Snowy 

 Mespilus in general appearance, but distinguished from 

 that, and all other species of the genus, by its young 

 leaves being perfectly destitute of pubescence. 



A native of Hudson's Bay, whence living plants were 



* Amelanchier is, according to Clusius, a Piedmontese word ; it has long; 

 been enlisted into the service of Botany as a specific name, and more 

 recently has been used as the generic appellation of the group of which the 

 original Amelanchier is the type. 



