PLATE DXC. 



MESPILUS ODORATISSIMA. 



Sweet-scented Mespilus. 



CLASS XII. ORDER V. 



ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Twenty Chives. Five Pointals. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx 5-fklus. Petala 5. Bacca infera, 5- 



sperma 



Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5. Berry below, 5- 



seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Mespilus foliis utrinque pubescentibus, pinna- I Mespilus with leaves downy on both sides, and 



tifidis - 7 laciniis incisis. 



wing-cleft 5 with the segments slit. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 



1. The empalement and pointals. 



2. A branch of ripe fruit. 



Mespil 



Mesp 



Lord 



pointed out the specific differences to Mr. Lambert in I8O7. The accuracy of his 



and 



handsome dwarf trees, from 6 to 12 feet high in the specimens we have seen. The 



M 



ted 



the 



boughs are loaded in autumn. The tree called by Professor Pallas Crataegus 



translation of his Travels in the Crimea vnl \\ « ita ™a ion ««^ *.!. 



fruit 



have ascertained from his Herbarium : and th« little red Medlar found in Anatol 



see 



Exotic Botany, is probably the same thing. We were favoured with the specimens both o 

 M. tanacetifolia (our next plate) by the Right Hon. the Marchioness of Bath, from Longleat 



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