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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Synonyines. A/espilus L. ; Pyrus W. ; Arbma. Pen. 



Derivation, According to Clusius, Amelancier is the old Savoy name for y4. vulgaris. (. o/P/.) 

 Amelancier is the Savoy name for the medlar. 



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

 the calyx. Ovarium oi 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. 



i 1. ^.VULGARIS Mcenck. The common Amelanchier. 



Identification. Mcench Meth^, 682. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 604. 



Synonymes. JV/espilus Arneldnchicr Lin. Sp. 685., Jacq. Fl. Aiistr. t. 300. ; Pyrus Amelanchier 



Willd. Sp. 2. p. 1015. ; ^rbnia rotundif61ia Pers. Syn. 2. p. 39. ; CratEe'gus rotundif 61ia Lam. ; 



S6rbus Amelanchier Crantz ; Alisier Amelanchier, Amelanchier des Bois, Neflier h. Feuilles rondes, 



Pr. ; Felsenbirne, Ger. ; Pero cervino, Ital. 

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



Spec. Char., Sfc. 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 - 

 tainbleau in France. Height 15 ft. to 

 20 ft. [ntroduced in 1396. 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 INIarch. 



Ameldnclrirr vnli^i.ris. 



* 2 2. A. (v.) Botrya'pium Dec. The Grape-Pear, or Snoiuy-blossomed 



Amelanchier. 



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



Synonymes. Jl/espilus canadensis Lin. Sp. 185. ; M. arbdrea Michx. Arb. 2. t. 66. ; Crataegus race- 

 mbsa Lam. Diet. 1. p. 84. ; P^rus Botryapiam Lin. fil. Suppl. p. 255. ; ArhniA Botryapium Pers 

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

 Choisy, Amelanchier de Choisy, Alisier a Grappes, Fr. ; Trauhenbirne, Ger. 



Engravings. Schm. Arb., t. 84. ; Willd. AbbiW., 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^g. 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 ; 



tfig. 751. showing the plant in spring 

 before the flowers are fully opened ; 

 A|L and fig. 752. showing the plant in 



W fruit. Both difltr in some respects 



fromyfg. 7.53. See Sir W.J. Hooker's 

 remarks under A. ov&lis, No. 4. 



5/jec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ob- 

 long-eUiptical, cuspidate, 

 somewhat villous when 

 young, afterwards glabrous. 

 (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous 

 shrub or low tree, closely 



7S1. A. (v.) Botljipium. 



7S. A. (T., BotrjAfiiuin. 



