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oblong, or obovate, 

 acute, srlabrous. 

 Fruit spherical, 

 and, as well as the 

 calyxes, glabrous. 

 ('or3mbs few-flow- 

 ereil, coarctate. 

 Fruit: with a villous 

 disk. (Don's Mill.) 

 A bushy shrub. OF 

 garden origin, pro- 

 bably a hybrid be- 

 tween F. rbutif61ia and P. ChamaeiTiespilus. 

 Height 4- ft. to 5 ft. Cultivated in 1 8 1 0. Flow- 

 ers white ; May and June. Fruit dark purple; 

 ripe Sept. Decaying leaves purple and vellow. 



801. P. (a.) grandifblia. 



805. P. (o.) srandif61ia. 



\ It bears a profusion of flowers, and dark purple fruit ; and, on that account, 

 r and also on account of the purple tinge of its leaves, it is highly ornamental. 

 Dr. Lindley considers it as the most Vdluable species of this division of Pyrus 

 '" that has hitherto been described. 



viii. Cliamamespilus Dec. 



Sect. Char. Petals upright, conniving, concave. Styles 2. Pome ovate. 

 Leaves simple, glandless. Flowers in a capitate corymb. {Dec. Prod.) 



* 42. P. Ciiam/EMe'spilus Liudl. The dwarf 

 Medlar. 



Ideniification. Lind!. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 98. ; Dec. 



Prod., 2. p. 637. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 649. 

 Synonymes. Cratfe'gus Cham;emt^spilus Jacq. Aiis/r. t. 231. ; 

 I Jl/espilus Cbamieni^spilus Lm. Sp. 68.i. ; S6rbus Chams- 

 i mLi\)i\us Crnntz A7/str. S3, t. 1. f. 3. ; the bastard Quince; 

 niedriger Mispelbamn, Ger. : Camenespolo, I/iil. 

 Krigrai'ing.s. Jacq. Austr., t. 231. ; Crantz Austr., 83. 1. 1. f. 

 3. ; and our fig. 806. 



Sjwc. Char., SiC Leaves ovate, serrated, gla- 

 brous ; except bearing on the under surface, 



i when young, down, which is deciduous. {Dec. 



\ Prod.) A stiff-branched shrub. Europe, in 



I rough mountainous places. Height 5 ft. to 



; 6 ft. Lntrodiiced in 1683. Flowers white, 

 tinted with rose; May and June. Fruit round, 

 orange-coloured, or red ; ripe in Stptember. 



i This species forms a compact bush, and flow- 

 fer-s and fruits in the greatest abundance, and 

 iience it merits to be much more extensively 

 'ntroduced into collections than it appears to 

 jiave hitherto been. It grafts beautifully on 

 (he common hawthorn ; and, indeed, whoever 

 :is a quickset hedge may have a collection of 



nil the 



species of this genus. 



806. P. Cliamciniespilus. 



* Other Species ofVijrus. P. alnifolia Lindl. in Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 98. Leaves 

 la.irous, roundi.sh, feather-nerved, and rather glaucous beneath. Fruit black 

 ind sugary. ^ North America, at Fort Mandon^ P. tomentosa Dec. Protl. ii. 

 j; fi37. ; ilfulus tomentosa Dum. Cours. ed. 2. v. p. 438. Allied to P. bac- 

 iata ; but the flowers, as well as fruit, are unknown. Siberia. P. rubicunda 

 'lotiiiiai 



ns. {Vcrz., 1824, p. 192.; Dec. Prod.,n. p. 637.) Leaves oval-acu- 

 iiinate. Fruit partly red and partly yellow. Native country unknown. 



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