xxvi. 



: AMELA'NCHIER. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments foliaceous. Petals nearly orbicular. 



Di&k large, full of honey. Styles 2 5, glabrous. Pome turbinate, open ; 



5-celled. Endocarp bony. (Don's Mill.} 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; lanceolate, serrulated. 



Floivers large, nearly sessile, usually solitary, white. Bracteas permanent. 



Trees ; in a wild state furnished with spines. Natives of Europe. 



The first species is cultivated for its fruit, which is eatable, and the seeds of 

 which are accounted anti-lithic. The second species is an ornamental shrub 

 or low tree, of the general character of a CVatae v gus. Both are propagated by 

 grafting on the quince, the wild pear, or the common hawthorn ; and both 

 grow freely in any common soil, rather moist than dry. 



1. M. GERMA'NICA L. The German, or common, Medlar. 



Identification. Lin. Sp.. 684. ; Pall. Fl. Ross., t. 13. f. 1. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 633. ; Don's Mill., 2. 



p. 605. 

 Engravings. Pall. FL Ross., 1. 13. f. 1. ; the plate of this species in Arb. Brit, 1st edit., vol. vi. ; 



and our fig. 759. 



759. Jtf&pilus germ&nica. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves lanceolate, tomentose beneath, undivided. Flowers 

 solitary. {Dec. Prod.) A deciduous tree of the second rank. Europe 

 and the West of Asia, in bushy places and woods ; and said to be found, 

 also, in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and about Chester, in England ; apparently 

 in a truly wild state in Sussex. Cultivated in 1596. Flowers white ; 

 May and June. Fruit brown ; ripe in October and November. Decaying 

 leaves dark brown, or yellow. 



Varieties. DeCandolle gives the following forms of this species, which may 

 be considered as natural varieties : ^ 



