XXVI. rosa'cf.m: amela'nchier. 



415 



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

 Disk large, full of honey. Styles 2 5, glabrous. Poyne turbinate, open ; 

 5-celled. Endocarp bony. (Don^s Jllill.) 



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

 Flowers 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 Cratae^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 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., t. 13. f. I. ; the plate of this species in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vl. ; 



and OUT fig. 759. 



759. 3fe3pihis germanica. 



Spec. Cliar., ^c. 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 Su.ssex. Cultivated in 1596. Flowers white ; 

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

 leaves dark brown, or yelloV. 



' orieties, DeCandoUe gives the following forms of this species, which may 

 , be considered as natural varieties : 



