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AUBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



Genus XVI. 



PART III. 



AMELA'NCHIER Med. 



The Amelanchier 

 Di-Pentagjnia. 



Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 100. 



Lin. Syst. Icosandria 



Dec. I'roii., 2. p. (132 



Identification. Med. Gesch., 1793. 



Don's Mill, 2. p. G(H. 

 Synonymes. 3/^spilus L. ; P^rus »'. ; Arbnia Pers. ,^■,T^^I„^ 



Derivation. According to Clusius, Amelancier is the old Savoy name lor A. vulgaris. [E. of PI.) 



Amelanchier is tlie Savoy name for the medlar. 



Descrijjtion, ^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 Alivnch. The common Amelanchier. 



Identification. Moench Meth., 682. ; Dec. Prod,, 2. p. 632. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. G04. 



Si/nont/mes. 3/e.spilus Amcldnchier Lin. Sp., 685., Jacq. Fl. Aiistr., t.;^). ; Pfrus Ametdnchicr 

 Willd Sp., 2. p. 1015. ; Arbnia rotundifblia Pers. Syn., 2. p. 39. ; (."rata^'gus rotundifbha Lam. ; 

 Sorbus Ameldnc/iier Crantz; Alisier Amelancliicr, Amelanchier des Bois, Nefher k l-euilles rondos, 

 Fr.; Felsenbirne, G.-r. „ ™„ , ^, , . . ,, i n 



Engravings. Jacq. Fl. Austr., t. 300. ; Bot. Mag., t. 2430. ; our Hg. 626.; and the plate in Vol. II. 



Spec. Cliar., ^c. Leaves roundish-oval, 

 bluntish, downy beneatli, afterwards 

 glabrous. Fruit dark blue. {Dec. Prod., 

 ii. p. 632.) A native of mountainous 

 woods, among rocks, in difft-rent parts of + 

 the Continent of Europe ; the A1|)S, the 

 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 oft", or is eaten by the birds, 

 species at Syon, from 15 ft. to 20 ft. in height. 

 S 2. A. (v.) BoTRYA^PiUM Dec. The Grape-Pear, or Sno7vj/-blossumcd 

 Amelanchier. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; Hock. Fl. Bor. Amcr., 1. p. 202. ; Don's Mill., 2. p.6C4. 



Synonymes. il/^spilus canadensis Lin. Sp., 185. ; M. arborea Michx. Arb., 2. t. 66. ; Cratie'gus race 



mbsa Lam. Diet., 1. p. 84. ; Pfrus 



Botryapium Lin. fit. Suppl., p. ^5. ; 



Arbnia Botryapium Pers. Syn., 2. 



p. 39. ; the Canadian Medlar, Snowy 



Mespilus, June Berry, wild Pear 



Tree ; Alisier de Choisy, Amelan. 



chier de Choisy, Alisier 4 Grappes, 



Fr. ; Traubenbirne, Ger. 



Engravings. Schm. Arb., t. 84. ; 



Wild. Abbild., t. 79. ; Krause, t. 56.; 



the plates of this species, in a young 



and an old state, in Vol II. ; our 



fig. 629., from a specimen taken 



from the tree in the Horticultural 



Society's Garden, with the leaves +"* 



.\. "^^ "X and flowers fully expanded ; and 



figs. 627. and 628 , copied from INlichaux's ^^orth American Sylva ; fig. 627. showing the Pjant j" 



spring before the flowers are Ifully opened; and fe 628. showing the plant in fruit. Both diHer 



in some rcsiiects (ron\fig. 629. See Sir W. J. Hooker's remarks under A. ovalis. No. 4. 



Spec. Char., i^c. Leaves oblong-cUiptical, cuspidate, somewhat villous when 



young, afterwards glabrous. Native of Virginia and Canada. {Dec. Prod., 



There are trees of this 



