558 



rcOSANDRIA DI 



minibus pubescentibu 

 calycis segmentis glabi 



J 



sp 



2. p, 101^. 



PENTAGYNIA, 



germs pubesc 

 merits of the 

 brous. 



calyx g 



seg, 



Pursh, I. p. 339. 



Mespilus Canadensis ? Walt. p. 148. 



far. cordata, Mich. 1. p. 291. 



A small tree, 10-12 feet high. Leaves, particularly when young, 



heart shaped and covered M-ith a silky pubescence ; in the oid leaves 



*ese characters frequently disappear. Flowers in simple, terminal 



racemes, expanding be fore the leaves. Calyx villous on the interior 



suriace. Petais y,lute, obtuse, slightly 2 toothed at the summit. 4 



times as ong as the calyx. Filaments unequal, much shorter than 



toe enrol a. 3tyks pubescent at base, as long as the shorter stamens. 

 Jrruit red, eatable. 



Grows in rich, light soils. 



Flowers February — March. 



4. 



A. 



Ova LIS. 



,i 



foliis 



Unarmed : leaves 



rotundo-cllipticis, acutls, j lipticnearlv round, acute, 

 glabris ; flonbus racemo- I glabrous ; flowers in ra- 

 sis ; petalis obovatis : cemes : nfttals obovate ; 



SIS 



ger 



caljcisque 



segmentis pubescentib 



germ 



flowe 

 petals obovate J 

 d segments 



Sp. pi 





p. 1014-. 



alyx pubescent 



Pursh, 1. p. 340. 



Mespilus Canadensis, var. obovalis, Mich. 1. p. 291 



M. Araelanchier? Walt.p. 148. ^"- *• P- -^yi 



fLZ^I ■ S' 'r^ M ^'^^'' ^^«^'^^ ^ery glabrous when «!J. 

 Srt ': .kIT^"' '"""•'^^^ •^'^^•"es. (frz^f^blacl, eatable. Pursh.) 



I have only seen it once in stiff clay soih 



1. on iha Alln-i,o + « I 



•^£Lr&=-'--^i^a5: 



PYRUS. 



Cal?4X superus, .5-fidus. 



Pctala a. 



Styli 5. 



Po. 



•mimi magnum, carnosum, 



^-loculare, polyspermum. 

 ^^nnna cartiladnea. 



Calyx superior, 5 cleft. 

 Petals 5. Stj/les5, .f^PP^ 



fleshy, 5 cellefi, 

 many seeded. Seeds car- 

 lilaffinous. 



large, 



