Alabama Serviceberry 



439 



mm. in diameter, dark purple when ripe, juicy, and sometimes of better flavor 

 than that of the Serviceberry. 



3. ROUND-LEAVED SERVICEBERRY— Amelanchier sangtiinea (Pursh) 



Lindley 



Amelanchier rotundifolia (Michaux) RcEmer. Pyrus sanguinea Pursh 



This small tree or shrub occurs in woods and thickets from New Brunswick 

 to New York and Minnesota, and south- 

 ward, along the mountains, to North 

 Carolina. Its maximum height is 6 

 meters, with a tnmk diameter of about 

 3 dm. 



The bark is quite smooth and light- 

 colored. The twigs are slender, red or 

 gray-brown. The leaves are thick and 

 firm, broadly oval, ovate or suborbicu- 

 lar, 4 to 8 cm. long, usually blunt or 

 rounded at each end, sometimes ab- 

 ruptly blunt-pointed, often heart-shaped 

 at the base, margined to the base, or 

 nearly so by large, often incurved teeth, 

 bright green above, smooth on both 

 sides almost from the first, pale or 

 whitish beneath, the midrib prominent 

 and yellowish, the leaf-stalk stout. The 

 flowers appear in May, in short, smooth 



Fig. 385. — Round-leaved Serviceberry. 



racemes; the calyx is smooth, its lobes lanceolate; the petals are spatulate or ob- 

 lanceolate, i to 1.6 cm. long; the ovary is woolly at the top. The fruit is globose, 

 6 to 8 mm. in diameter, the stout pedicels 2 to 4 cm. long. 



4. ALABAMA SERVICEBERRY— Amelanchier alabamensis Britton 



The type specimens of this species, here described as new, were collected by 

 Professor F. S. Earle and Mr. C. F. Baker ( No. 1610) in the spring of 1898, at 

 Auburn, Lee county, Alabama, from a tree 5 meters in height. 



The young shoots are loosely hairy, the older ones smooth and gray-brown; 

 the winter buds are oblong, blunt-pointed, 4 or 5 mm. long. The leaves are ovate 

 to elliptic, or some of them obovate, 8 cm. long or less, 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, rather 

 abruptly pointed at the apex, rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, densely 

 whitish-woolly on the imder surface and somewhat hairy on the upper side when 

 young, sparingly but persistently hairy beneath, and smooth, dark green and 

 shining on the upper surface when old, finely toothed, their hairy stalks half as 



