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AHUOHETUM AND FKUTICETUAI. 



GENUS XVI. 



PART JIJ, 



AMELA'NCHIER Med. 



Lin. Si/st. Icosandria 



THE AMELANCHIER. 

 Di-Pentagynia. 



Identification. Med. Gesch., 1793. ; Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 100. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; 



Don'sMilL,2. p.604. 



Synonymes. Ifespilus L. ; Pyrus W. ; Arbnia Pers. 

 Derivation. According to Clusius, Amelancier is the old Savoy name for A. vulgaris. (E. of PI.} 



Amelanchier is the Savoy name for the medlar. 



Description, %c. Small trees, natives of Europe and North America, with 

 simple, serrated, deciduous leaves, white flowers in racemes, and linear- 

 lanceolate deciduous bracteas. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 632.) 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. 



1. A. VULGA^RIS Mcench. The common Amelanchier. 



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



Synonymes. Jfespilus Amelanchier Lin. Sp., 685., Jacq. FL Austr., t. 300. ; Pyrus Amelanchier 



Willd. Sp., 2. p. 1015. ; Arbnia rotundifblia Pers. Syn., 2. p. 39. ; Crataj'gus rotundifblia Lam. ; 



Sorbus Amelanchier Crantz; Alisier Amelanchier, Amelanchier des Bois, Neflier a Feuilles rondes, 



Fr. ; Felsenbirne, Get: 



Engravings. Jacq. FL Austr., t. 300. ; Bot. Mag., t. 2430. ; our 1g. 626.; and the plate in Vol. II. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves roundish-oval, 

 bluntish, downy beneath, afterwards 

 glabrous. Fruit dark blue. (Dec. Prod., 

 ii. p. 632.) A native of mountainous 

 woods, among rocks, in different parts of 

 the Continent of Europe ; the Alps, the 

 Pyrenees, and at Fontainbleau ; and in 

 cultivation in England since 1596. It 

 forms a most desirable low tree, on ac- 

 count 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 March. The fruit 

 is round, soft, and eatable: it ripens in. 

 July, and soon drops off, or is eaten by the birds. There are trees of this 

 species at Syon, from 15 ft. to 20 ft. in height. 

 2. A. (v.) BOTRYA'PIUM Dec. The Grape-Pear, 

 Amelanchier. 



Snowy-blossomed 



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

 Synonymes. Afespilus canadensis Lin. Sp., 185. ; M. arb&rea Michx. Arb., 2. t. 66. j Crata'gus race 

 mbsa Lam. Diet., 1. p. 84. ; Pyrus 

 Botryapium Lin. fil. Suppl., p. 255. ; 

 Arbnia Botryapium Pers. Syn., 2. 

 p. 39. ; the Canadian Medlar, Snowy 

 Mespilus, June Berry, wild Pear 

 Tree ; Alisier de Choisy, Amelan- 

 chier de Choisy, Alisier a Grappes, 

 Fr. ; Traubenbirne, Ger. 

 Engravings. Schm. Arb., t. 84.; 

 Wild. Abbild., 1 79. ; Krause, t. 56.; 

 the plates of this species, in a young 

 and an old state, in VoL II. ; our 

 fig. 629., from a specimen taken 

 from the tree in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, with the leaves 



4- ^^f \ and flowers full y expanded ; and 



figs. 627. and 628 , copied from Michaux's North American Sylva; fig. 627. showing the plant in 

 spring before the flowers are "fully opened; and fig. 628. showing the plant in fruit. Both differ 

 in some respects from fig. 629~ See Sir W. J. Hooker's remarks under A. ovalis, No. 4. 

 Spec. Char., $c. Leaves oblong-elliptical, cuspidate, somtulutt \illous \\htn 

 young, afterwards glabrous. Native of Virginia and Canada. (Dec. Prod., 



