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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



the Rocky Mountains. Height 10 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1800. Flowers 

 white ; April. Fruit purple ; ripe in July. Decaying leaves rich yellow. 



Varieties. 



$& A. (v.) o. 2 subcordata Dec. ; ^4ronia subcordata Raf. ; JJ/alus micro- 

 carpa Raf. A native of mountains near New York. (Dec. Prod.) 



& * A. (v.) o. 3 semi-integrifolia Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. p. 201. Leaves for 

 the most part separated at the apex. A native about the Grand 

 Rapids, and at Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia. 



Sir Wm. J. Hooker is disposed to agree with Dr. Torrey, who suspects this 

 to be only a variety of A. Botryapium ; and he adds that Michaux seems to 

 have included A. Botryapium and A. vulgaris under his A. canadensis. The 

 wood of A. ovalis, according to Dr. Richardson, is prized by the Cree Indians 

 for making arrows and pipe stems; and it is thence termed by the Canadian 

 voyagers Bois de fleche. Its berries, which are about the size of a pea, are the 

 finest fruit in the country ; and are used by the Cree Indians both in a fresh 

 and in a dried state. They " make excellent puddings, very little inferior to 

 plum-pudding." (Hook. FL Bor. Arner., i. p. 203.) 



& % 5. A. (v.) FLO'RIDA Lindl. The flowery Amelanchier. 



Identification. Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1. 1589.; Card. Mag., vol. ix. p. 484. 



Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1589. ; and our figs. 758. to a scale of 2 in. to 1 ft., and fig. 757. of the 

 natural size. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves oblong, obtuse at both ends, coarsely 



serrate in the terminal portion, glabrous in every state. 



Bracteas and stipules feathery at the tip, soon falling off. 



Flowers in upright racemes, many in a raceme. Calyx gla- 

 brous externally ; its segments longer 

 than, or at least as long as, the 

 stamens. (Lindl.) A handsome 

 hardy deciduous shrub or low tree, 

 in habit and general appearance like 

 A. (v.) Botryapium, but at once 

 recognised as distinct by its fastigiate 

 habit of growth, and by the short- 

 ness of its stamens. North America, 

 on the north-west coast. Height 



10ft. to 20ft. Introduced in 1826. Flowers white; May. Fruit purple; 



ripe in August. Decaying leaves rich yellow. 



Variety. 



j A. (v.) f. 2 parvifblia, the A. parvifolia of the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, is of a dwarf habit, not growing above 3 or 4 feet high, and 

 has smaller leaves. 



The leaves somewhat resemble those of the hornbeam ; the petals vary in 

 length, some having measured more than f of an inch. In general habit, it is 

 somewhat more fastigiate than the other sorts, unless we except A. sangulnea, 

 to which, Dr. Lindley observes, it is very near akin. Possibly a distinct spe- 

 cies, but we doubt it. 



GENUS XIX, 



.flfE'SPILUS Lindl. THE MEDLAR. Lin. Syst. Icosandria Di-Pentagynia. 



Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Trans., 13. p. 99. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 633. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 604. 

 Synonymes. Mespilus sp. of Lin. and others ; Mespil6phora sp. of Neck. ; Neflier, Fr. ; Mispel 



Ger. ; Neepolo, ItaL 

 Derivation. From mesos, a half, and pilos, a bullet ; fruit resembling half a bullet. 



