874 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART Ill. 
Genus XVI. 
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AMELA’ NCHIER Med. Tue Amevancuisr. Lin. Syst. Icosandria 
Di-Pentagynia. 
Identification. Med. Gesch., 1793.; Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 100.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; 
Don’s Mill., 2. p. 604. 
Synonymes. Meéspilus L.; P¥rus W.; Ardnia Pers. 
Derivation. According to Clusius, Amelancier is the old Savoy name for 4. vulgaris. (Z. of Pi.) 
Amelanchier is the Savoy name for the medlar. 
Description, §c. Small trees, natives of Europe and North America, with 
simple, serrated, deciduous leaves, white flowers in racemes, and linear- 
lanceolate deciduous bracteas. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 632.) In British gardens, 
they are cultivated for their flowers, which are white, abundant, showy, and 
produced early in the season; for their fruit, which ripens in June; and for 
the deep red, or rich yellow hue, which their foliage assumes in autumn. 
They are propagated by grafting on the hawthorn or the quince; or the 
weaker on the stronger-growing species’ of the genus. 
¥ 1. A. vuLGA‘RIS Mench. The common Amelanchier. 
Identification. Moench Meth., 682. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 604. 
Synonymes. Mespilus Ameldnchier Lin. Sp., 685., Jacg. Fl. Austr., t.300.; Pyrus Ameldnchier 
Willd. Sp., 2. p.1015.; Ardnia rotundifolia Pers. Syn., 2. p. 39.; Crate‘gus rotundifolia Lam. ; 
Sorbus Amelanchier Crantz; Alisier Amelanchier, Amelanchier des Bois, Néflier 4 Feuilles rondes, 
Fr.; Felsenbirne, Ger. , 
Engravings. Jacq. Fl. Austr., t. 300.; Bot. Mag., t. 2430. ; our %g. 626.; and the plate in Vol. II. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves roundish-oval, 
bluntish, downy beneath, afterwards 
glabrous. Fruit dark blue. (Dec. Prod., 
il. p. 632.) A native of mountainous 
woods, among rocks, in different parts of + 
the Continent of Europe; the Alps, the yp 
Pyrenees, and at Fontainbleau; and in — 
cultivation in England since 1596. It 
forms a most desirable low tree, on ac- 
count of its early and numerous flowers, 
which cover the tree like a white sheet, 
about the middle of April, and, in very 
mild seasons, even in March. The fruit 
is round, soft, and eatable: it ripens in 
July, and soon drops off, or is eaten by the birds. There are trees of this 
species at Syon, from 145 ft. to 20 ft. in height. 
¥ 2. A. (v.) Borrya‘pium Dec. The Grape-Pear, or Snowy-blossomed 
Amelanchier, 

Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; Hock. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 202. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 604. 
Synonymes. Méspilus canadénsis Lin. Sp., 185.; M. arborea Michz. Arb., 9. t. 66.; Crataegus race 
= mdsa Lam. Dict., 1. p. 84. ; Pyrus 
Botryapium Lin. fil. Suppl., p.255.; 
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Aronia Botryapium Pers. Syn., 2. 
p. 39. ; the Canadian Medlar, Snowy 
627 Mespilus, June Berry, wild Pear 
Tree; Alisier de Choisy, Amelan- 
chier de Choisy, Alisier 4 Grappes, 
Fr.; Traubenbirne, Ger. 
Engravings. _Schm. Arb., t. 845 
ild. Abbild., t. 79. ; Krause, t. 56.; 
the plates of this species,in a young , 
and an old state, in Vol. II.; our 
Wa fig. 629., from a specimen taken 
“IN 4) ‘from the tree in the Horticultural ‘\,\\ 
WV Society’s Garden, with the leaves +" 

+ SQ ’ and flowers fully expanded; and 
Jigs. 627. and 628., copied from Michaux’s North American Sylva; fig. 627. showing the plant in 
spring before the flowers are _fully opened ; and fig. 628. showing the plant in fruit. Both differ 
in some respects from jig. 629. See Sir W. J. Hooker’s remarks under J, ovalis, No. 4. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oblong-elliptical, cuspidate, somewhat villous when 
young, afterwards glabrous. Native of Virginia and Canada. (Dee. Prod., 
