130 CALYCANTHUS FAMILY. 



P. spectabilis, CHINESE FLOWERINO-A. Cult from China, for its 



showy bright ne-colored (lowers, which arc double or semi-double ; the leaves 

 &c. smooth, except when vcrv \ouiiv. 



P. prunif61ia, SHU.IMAN I i:\n-A. Cult, for tin- fruit: smooth or 

 nearly so, except ihe newly developed leaves anil the peduncles ; styles woolly 

 at the base ; fruit yellowish. The lietter ( 'ral>-Apples are perhaps" crosses of 

 this with the Common Apple. 



** Wild s/Mciif, trith some of the leaves irregularly cut-toothed, or even lotted: 

 the bright i'< ixe-colored flowers and the greenish /'nut n n/ /rui/runt. 



P. coronaria, AMKIMCAN or GARLAND CRAB- A. Glades from W. New 



York \V &. S. : small tree, .soon smooth, with the mostly ovate leaves rounded 

 or obscurcl) heart-shaped at base and inclined to be 3-lobed. 



P. angUStifblia, XAI:I:OW-LKA.VI;I> Cu.us-A. (ilades W. & S., with 

 narrow-oblon or lanceolate leaves : othenvisc too like the last. 



3 CHOKEBERRY. Leum simple, the u/>/>irfiice with some small i/hinds along 

 the midrib: jln/rem (irliltr-) in compound cymes teriiiiiint/in/ tin- brnnchi, s : 

 styles united <il base : fruit berry-li/,< . 



P. arbu.tif.61ia, COMMON CHOKEBERRY. Low woods and bogs ; shrub 

 with small obovatc or oblong finely serrate leaves, and a juicy insi|)id berry, not 

 larger than a pea, either purple or black, pear-shaped or globular. 



4. ROWAN-TREB or MouxTAix-Asn. Leaves odd-pinnate, of several 

 (9-17) leaflets : flowers (intuit runs and white) in (i/n/i/e compound flat 

 a/lues terminating the branches of the season : fruit berry-like, scarlet-red 

 when ri/ie. Trees ojti-n plnnttd for ornament, especially for the clusters of 

 s/toii-y fruit in /ni/iuiui. 



P. Americana, AMERICAN MOUNTAIN-ASH. Slender tree or tall shrub, 

 wild in the cooler districts ; smooth or soon becoming so, with lanceolate 

 taper-pointed and sharply serrate bright-green leaflets on a reddish stalk, pointed 

 and smooth glutinous leaf-bads, and berries not larger than peas. 



P. sambu.cif.61ia, EI.DER-LEAVKK K. or M. Wild along the northern 

 frontiers ; smooth or nearly so, with oblong or lance-ovate and blunt or ab- 

 ruptly short-pointed leaflets, coarsely serrate with more spreading teeth, spar- 

 ingly hairy Ic.if-bmls, and larger berries. 



P. aucuparia, KrnoriiAX II. or M. Planted from Kn. ; forms a good- 

 sized tree, with oblong and obtuse paler leaflets, their lower surface, stalks, and 

 the leaf-buds downy ; and the berries larger (^' in diameter). 



20. CYDONIA, QUINCE. (Xamed from a city in Crete.) 



C. vulgaris, COMMON QUINCE. Cult, from the Levant ; small tree, 

 nearly thornless, with oval or ovate entire leaves (Lessons, p. 50, fig. 1)2) cot- 

 tony beneath ; flowers solitary at the end of the leafy branches of the season, in 

 late spring, with leafy calyx-lobes, white or pale-rose petals, and stamens in a 

 siiiLile row; the large and hard fruit pear-shaped, or in one variety apple-shaped, 

 fragrant ; -eeds mucilaginous. 



C. Jap6nica, JATAN QUINCE (also named I'YKUS JAPONICA). Thorny, 

 smooth, widely branched shrub, from .Japan ; cult, for the lar<_ r e showy flowers, 

 which are [H'oduccd in spring, earlier than the oval or wedge-oblong leaves, on 

 >iile spin's, in great abundance, single or more or less double, scarlet-red, or 

 sometimes with rose-colored or even almost white varieties; calyx with short 

 and rounded lobes; fruit green, very hard, resembling a small apple, but totally 

 uneatable. 



39. CALYCANTHACE^, CALYCANTHUS FAMILY. 



Shrubs with opposite entire leaves, no stipules, sepals and petals 

 imbricated and indefinite in number and passing one into the other, 

 stamens few or many with anthers turned outwards, all these parts 

 oil a hollow receptacle or calyx-cup in the manner of a rose-hip, 



