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ARBORETUM ET FUUTICETUM BRITANN [CUM. 



Synonymea. A/espilus /,. ; Pyrus W. ; ^rbnia Pers. 



Derivation. According to Clusius, Amelancier is the old Savoy name for A. vulgaris. (E. of PL) 

 Amelaucier is the Savoy name for the medlar. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals lanceolate. Stamens rather shorter than 

 the calyx. Ovarium of 10-cells, or of 5 bipartite ones. Ovula 10, solitary 

 in the partitions of the cells. Styles 5, joined together a little at the base. 

 Pome, when mature, 3 5 celled. Seeds 3 5 ; endocarp cartilaginous. 

 (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; serrated. Flowers white, 

 in racemes. Bracteas linear lanceolate, deciduous. Small trees, natives of 

 Europe, America, or Asia. 



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 Mcench. The common Amelanchier. 



Identification. Mcench Meth v 682. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 



Synonymes. 3/espilus Amelanchier Lin. Sp. 685., Jacq. Fl. Austr. t. 300. ; 

 Willd. Sp. 2. p. 1015. ; ^r6nia rotundifblia Pers. Syn. 2. p. 39. ; Cratsc'gu 

 S6rbus Amelanchier Crantz ; Alisier Amelanchier, Amelanchier des Bois, N " 

 Fr. ; Felsenbirne, Ger. ; Pero cervino, Jtal. 



Engravings. Jacq. Fl. Austr., t. 300. ; Bot. Mag., t. 2430. ; and our fig. 750. 



Spec. Char.y fyc. Leaves roundish-oval, 

 bluntish, downy beneath, afterwards 

 glabrous. Fruit dark blue. (Dec. Prod.) 

 A deciduous low tree. Continent of 

 Europe, the Alps, Pyrenees, and at Ton- -f 

 tainbleau in France. Height 15ft. to 

 20ft. Introduced in 1596. Flowers 

 white ; March and April. Fruit black, 

 soft and eatable; ripe in July. Decaying 

 leaves bright yellow. 



A most desirable low tree, on account 

 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. 



604. 



Pyrus Amelanchier 

 ic'gus rotundifolia Lain. ; 

 , Neflier a Feuilles rondes, 



750. Ameltittclrier vulg&ris. 



* * 2. A. (v.) BOTRYA'PIUM Dec. The Grape-Pear, or Snowy-blossomed 

 Amelanchier. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 202. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 604. 

 Synonymes. Afespilus canadensis Lin. Sp. 185. ; A/, arbdrea Michx. Arb. 2. t. 66. ; C'ratae'gus race- 

 mbsa Lam. Diet. 1. p. 84. ; Pyrus Botryapium Lin. fiL Suppl. p. 255. ; ,4r6nia Botryapium Pers. 

 St/n. 2. p. 39. ; the Canadian Medlar, Snowy Mespilus, June Berry, wild Pear Tree ; Alisier de 

 Cboisy, Amelanchier de Choisy, Alisier Grappes, Fr. ; Traubenbirne, Ger. 



Engravings. Schm. Arb., t. 84. ; Willd. Abbild., t. 79. ; Krause, t. 56. ; the plates of this species, 

 in a young and an old state, in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. ; our fig. 751., from a specimen taken 

 from the tree in the Horticultural Society's Garden, with the leaves and flowers fully expanded : 



and figs. 752. and 753., copied from 



Michaux's North American Sylva ; 



fig. 751. showing the plant in spring 



before the flowers are fully opened ; 



and fig. 752. showing the plant in 



fruit. Both differ in some respects 



from fig. 753. See Sir W. J. Hooker's 



remarks under A. ovalis, No. 4. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves ob- 

 long-elliptical, cuspidate, 

 somewhat villous when 

 young, afterwards glabrous. 

 (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous 

 shrub or low tree, closely 



751. A. <v.) Botrv&pium. 



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