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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III 



39. P. GRANDIFO V LIA Lindl. The large-leaved Aronia. 



Identification. Lindl. Hort. Trans., 7. p. 232. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1154. ; Don's Mill, 2. p. 649. 

 Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1154. j and our fig. 650. 



Spec. Char., $c. Stem erect, and, as well as the branches, smoothish. Leaves 

 oblong, or obovate, acute, glabrous. Fruit spherical, and, as well as the 

 calyxes, glabrous. Corymbs few-flowered, 

 coarctate. Fruit with a villous disk. (Don's 

 Mill., ii. p. 649.) Native of North America ; 

 introduced in 1810, and flowering in May and 

 June. Its flowers are white, its fruit dark 

 purple. A shrub, growing from 4 ft. to 5 ft. 

 high ; bearing a profusion of flowers, and dark 

 purple fruit ; and, on that account, and also on 

 account of the purple tinge of its leaves, highly 

 ornamental. Dr. Lindley considers it as the 

 most valuable species of this division of Pyrus 

 that has hitherto been described. 



651 



viii. Chamcemespilus Dec. 



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

 Leaves simple, glandless. Flowers in a capitate corymb. (Dec. Prod. y ii. 

 p. 637.) 



* 40. P. CHAM^EME'SPILUS Lindl. The dwarf Medlar. 



Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13, p. 98. : Dec. 



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

 Synonymes. Cratae'gus Chammspilus Jacq. Austr., t. 231. ; 



Af6spiltts Chamjemespilus Lin. Sp., 685. : S6rbus Chamse- 



mespilus Crantz Austr., 83. 1. 1. f. 3. : the bastard Quince. 

 Engravings. Jacq. Austr., t 231. ; Crantz Austr., 83. 1 1. 



f. 3. ; and our fig. 65L 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves ovate, serrated, gla- 

 brous, except bearing on the under surface, 

 when young, down, which is deciduous. 

 Flowers white, tinted with rose. (Dec. Prod., 

 ii. p. 637.) A shrub, a native of rough 

 mountainous places in Europe ; growing to 

 the height of 5ft. or 6ft., and flowering in 

 May and June. It was introduced in 1683, 

 and is occasionally met with in collections. 

 There are plants of it at Messrs. Loddiges, 

 and in the Camberwell Nursery, at Is. 6d. 

 each ; and as the plant forms a compact bush, 

 and flowers and fruits in the greatest abun- 

 dance, it merits to be much more extensively 

 introduced into collections than it appears to 

 have hitherto been. It grafts beautifully on 

 the common hawthorn ; and, indeed, whoever 

 has a quickset hedge may have a collection of 

 all the species of this genus. 



App. i. Species of Pyrus not sufficiently known. 



T. alntfdlia Lindl. in Lin. Trans., 13. p. 98., is a native of North America, at Fort Mandon, with 

 glabrous roundish leaves, feather-nerved, and rather glaucous beneath. The fruit black and 



P. tomentbsa Dec. Prod., 2. p. 637. ; A/fclus tomentosa Dum. Court., ed. 2. 5. p. 438. ; is a native of 

 Siberia, said to be allied to P. baccata ; but the flowers, as well as fruit, are unknown. 



P. rubicunda Hoffmans. (Vert., 1824, p. 192.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 637.) has the leaves oval-acuminate, 

 with a fruit partly red and partly yellow, somewhat resembling the common apple, but covered with 

 a glaucous bloom. IU native country is unknown. 



