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Var. melanocarpa. Stem low (29-49); branchlets, cymes, and leaves 
smooth or nearly so; leaves small; petals white; berries black. (Aronia me- 
lanocarpa, Ell.) — Swamps, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. March and 
April. 
* * * Leaves unequally pinnate : cymes compound : fruit baccate. 
4. P. Americana, DC. Leaflets 13-15, lanceolate, acuminate, serrate 
above the middle, soon smooth; cymes large, dense; berry small, globose or 
pear-shaped, scarlet. (Sorbus microcarpa, Pursh.) — Highest mountains “of 
North Carolina. May and June. — A shrub or small tree, Fruit acid. 
17. AMELANCHIER, Medic. 
Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, oblong. Stamens numerous, short.. Styles 5, more 
or less united. Fruit baccate, containing 3-5 cartilaginous 2-seeded carpels ; 
seeds separated by a false partition. — Shrubs or small trees, with simple 
leaves, and white flowers in terminal racemes. 
1. A. Canadensis, L., var. Botryapium, Torr. & Gray. Branches, 
leaves, and racemes tomentose when young, soon smooth; leaves elliptical, ab- 
ruptly acute, finely and sharply serrate, often slightly cordate ; racemes slender, 
appearing before the leaves ; petals four times as long as the calyx ; fruit glo- 
bose, purplish. (Aronia Teirptpium di. ) — Woods, Florida to Mississippi, and 
northward. February and March. — A small tree, with smooth whitish bark. 
Var. rotundifolia, Torr. & Gray. Shrubby ; leaves roundish-oval, some- 
what acuminate, sharply serrate ; racemes 6— 10-flowered ; petals small, nar- 
rowly oblong. (Aronia ovalis, Ell.) — Low grounds, chiefly in the upper dis- 
tricts, Georgia and northward. March. — Shrub 2? — 3? high. 
The cultivated representatives of this order are the Puum (PRUNUS DOMES- 
Ticus, Z.), Apricot (P. Anmentaca, Z.), CHERRIES (P. Aviom and P. Ce- 
RASUS, L.), Peacn (PERSICA VULGARIS, Jill), Appts (Pyrus mauus, L.), 
Pear (P. communis, L.), Quince (CYDONIA VULGARIS, gini and the 
ALMOND (AMYGDALUS). 
Orver 49. CALYCANTHACE/E. (Canouana:Anxertor 
: FAwrLY.) 
Shrubs, with opposite and entire leaves, without stipules mt pellucid 
dots. — Sepals and petals numerous and alike, united below into an ob- 
Conical fleshy cup, imbricated in the bud. Stamens numerous, short, — ae 
inserted within the petals, the inner ones often sterile. Anthers ad 
d. | Sxtrorse, Ovaries, MEYER. enclosed in. the; calyx-tube, andy nserte 
