ORDER 47.—ROSEWORTS. 197 
A. Canadensis, Shad-berry. June-berry. A small tree or shrub found in woods, 
with a dark-grayish bark. Flowers large white, in racemes at the ends of the 
branches, appearing in April and May, while the forests are yet naked. Fruit 
round, purplish, well-flavored, ripe in June. The plant is very variable in size, 
and in the leaves, &¢. 
8. PY’RUS. Pear. Apple. 
Calyx urn-shaped, limb 5-cleft. Petals 5, roundish. Stamens 00. Styles 
2-5. Pome fleshy or berry-like, containing 2-5 cartilaginous (thin ana 
elastic) carpels, each with 2 seeds.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple or 
pinnate. Flowers showy, white or rose-colored, in cyme-like umbels. 
May, June. 
§ Leaves pinnate. Fruit as large as peas, scarlet when ripe....6, 7 
§ Leaves simple....@ 
a Wild shrubs, 5-8f. high. Flowers small, in compound clusters....5 
a Trees wild or cultivated. Flowers large, in simple clusters....b 
b Flowers white. Pome bell-shaped, acute at base....1 
b Flowers rose-white. Pome with a pit at base....2-4 
1 P.commu/nis. Pear. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, Styles 5, distinet. ¢ (Fig. 280.) 
2 P.malus. Apple. Leaves ovate, not lobed, the veinlets incurved. (Fig. 188.) 
8 P. corona’ria. American Crab. Leaves ovate, often lobed, cut-serrate, straight- 
veined. (Fig. 454.) 
4 P, angustifolia. Narrow-leaved C. Leaves lanceolate, scarcely veiny. 
5 P. arbutifo/lia, Choke-berry. Leaves obovate or oval, with glands on mid-vein. 
6 P, America’na, Mountain-Ash. Leaflets 18-15, lanceolate, pointed. 
7 P. Aucupa’ria. English M. Leaflets lance-ovate, acute, Fruit larger. 
4, CYDO'NIA. Quince. 
Calyx urn-shaped, 5-cleft. Petals5.~ Styles5. Stamensmany. Pome 
with 5 parchment-like cells, each with several seeds.—Shrubs. Leaves 
simple. Flowers solitary or few in a cluster. 
1 ©. vulga’ris. Common Quince. Leaves downy beneath, broadly ovate, acute, en- 
tire, with small, half-ovate stipules. Flowers roseate, solitary terminal. Fruit 
large, obovate, highly esteemed in preserves, &e. (Fig. 1) 
2 0, Japon’ica, Japan Quince. Leaves glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, acute at each 
end, serrulate. Stipules reniform. Flowers red, side clusters, opening early. 
5. RO’SA. Rose. 
Calyx tube urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at the throat, limb 5-cleft 
the sepals generally with a little leaf at tip Petals 5 (greatly multiplied 
