636 MALACEAE 
1. A. oblongifolia (T. & G.) Roemer. Shrub with clustered erect stems, 2—8 
m. tall, er branched, not stoloniferous: leaf-blades of an elliptic type, 
varying t or slightly obovate, mostly 
3-5.5 em, s rounded at the apex, sub- 
anthesis: sepals lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 
long, tomentose acute: petals ob- 
peii uiu. UNS or nearly linear, 
ostly 7— ‘9 mm. long: pome nearly black 
dor the glaucous coat. [A. Botryapium 
(Fl. SE. U. S.)]—(SHApBUSH. THICKET- 
grounds, 
BLOW Y 
woods, Coastal Plain and adj. provinces, 
Ga. to Pa. and Me.—The leaf- Diades when 
young are den peed white-tomentose beneath, 
glabrous or nearly so at maturity. The fruits are moderately sweet and 
agreeably flavored. 
2. A. gp dde Wiegand. Shrub with erect ind 3—12 dm. tall, stolonifer- 
ous thus forming colonies: leaf-blades of an oval type, varying to bond 
obovate or broadly ovate, or suborbicular on EUN mostly 2.5—5 cm. long, 
rounded or mucronate, or sometimes subacute at the apex, with the fine et 
e su at the n 
rarely extending to the base, rounded or subcordate at the base, very slender- 
tiol aniel , 1.5-4 long i epals triangular-lanceolate, 
3 mm. long, tomentose within pon elliptic-obovate, 7-9 m ng: pome 
purplish-black under the glaucous coat. s (Fl - U. S.) ]—(Low 
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JUNEBERRY.)—Dry rocks, sandy bluffs, river banks, and sandy places, Men 
provinces, N. C. to Mich., and Newf.—The leaf-blades are densely white-tom 
tose beneath when young, but soon glabrous. The fruits are sweet, juicy, and 
agreeable. 
3. A. canadensis (L.) Medic. Tree up to 10 m. tall, or an irregularly a 
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shrub with few stems: leaf-blades ovate, oval, ellipt ic, or obovate 
long, acuminate or de -a acute, PE d serrate nearly or quite to the um 
rounded or cordate at the base, slender. -petioled: panicle nodding, 8-17 cm. 
long in anthesis: Eus triangular-ovate or nearly deltoid, 2-3 mm. long, 
tomentose: — linear or elliptic- ine 9-14 mm. long: pome maroon-purple. 
pale NEBE SUGAR-PEAR. ) —W oods, river-banks, sandy or rocky ridges, and 
amps, various provinces, Ga. to La., Kans. , Ont., and Newf.—The leaf- e: 
"i white- DRE ose when young, less den nsely so above than a oe per- 
sistently sparingly hairy. The fruits are rather dry and lack flav 
4. A. alabamensis Britton. Tree up to 5 m. tall, related to A. canadensis, 
but with relatively thicker, broader, and shallower or inconspicuously toothed 
leaf-blades: sepals triangular-ovate, thick and with a midrib at maturity, not 
reflexed: pome purplish-black —Sandy lands, S of ADU Ala. 
5. A. laevis Wiegand. Tree up to 13 m. tall, or low and shrubby northward: 
leaf-blades ovate, elliptic, or pis varying to obovate E suborbieular, 3-6 c 
long, short-ac te, acute, or sometimes rounded at the apex, sharply En 
finely serrate nearly or quite to t the G mostly subeordate or rounded at the 
base, usually puis oled: panicles. droopi ing, 3—7 cm. long, Pin nea 
flowered: sepals triangular- aun ae to a ac ate, 3—4 ong: 
petals linear- Piliptie 10—18 mm. long: pome dark-purple or B black be- 
neath the glaucous coat —Wooded EHE Du fields, and about swamps, Blue 
