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succulent ; the carpels distinct from one another, and from the calyx, 
which is persistent, and surrounds them, and, in many, is subtended 
by as many bracteas as it has lobes; the bracteas alternate with the 
lobes, Style proceeding from a little below the tip of the carpel. Leaves, 
in most cases, pinnately divided. Stipules attached to the petiole. Shrubs 
bearing fruit, or ornamental. 
Rv‘sus L. Integuments of carpels juicy. 
Porenti’Lia Nestl. Integuments of carpels dry. 
Sect. IV. Ro'szx Dec. 
Sect. Char. Fruit a hip; that is, with the tube of the calyx fleshy, of a 
pitcher shape, contracted at the mouth ; and including an aggregation of 
carpels attached to its inner face. Style proceeding from the inner side 
of the carpel. Shrubs eminently ornamental. 
Ro'sa Tourn. Leaf impari-pinnate. Stipules attached to the petiole. Prickles 
simple. 
Lowe Lindl. Leaf simple. Stipules none. Prickles usually compound. 
Sect. V. Po'mes Lindl, i 
Sect. Char, Fruit a pome ; that is, with the tube of the calyx become very 
fleshy, and including, and connate with, the carpels. Carpels normally 5, 
with gristly or bony walls, including 1—2 seeds; in Cydonia, several. 
Habit spiny or not ; leaves, in most cases, undivided, in some pinnate. 
Stipules not connate with the petiole. Ornamental low trees, or large 
shrubs, with showy flowers, in some genera spiny, and in others bearing 
some of our best hardy kitchen and dessert fruits. 
Cratz’eus Lindl, Carpels 1—5 prismatic nuts with bony shells, each in- 
cluding 1 seed. Leaves angled or toothed; in most cases deciduous. 
Flowers in terminal corymbs. Spiny shrubs or low trees. 
Puortr’nia Lindl. Carpels 2. Petals reflexed. Evergreen. Flowers in ter- 
minal panicles. Leaves simple, leathery, serrated or entire. In P. integri- 
folia the ovaries are 3, and each includes 2 ovules. 
CorongEa’stER Mediz. Carpels 2—3; ovules 2 in each cell. Leaves simple, 
entire, woolly beneath. Flowers in lateral spreading corymbs. 
AMELA'NCHIER Medik. Ovaries 5, each divided by a partition; ovules 1 in 
each cell. Ripe pome including 3—5 carpels. Petals lanceolate. Small 
trees. Leaves simple, serrate, deciduous. Flowers in racemes. 
Mr’spitus Lindl. Carpels 2—5 compressed nuts with bony shells, each in- 
cluding 1 seed. Leaves lanceolate, serrulate, deciduous. Flowers large, 
subsessile, subsolitary. 
Py‘rus Lindl. Carpels 5, or 2—5. Seeds 2in each carpel. Leaves simple 
or pinnate, deciduous. Flowers in spreading terminal cymes or corymbs. 
Cypo'nia Tourn, Carpels 5, each including many seeds. 
Sect. I. Amyepa‘LEx Juss. 
Genus I. 
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AMY’GDALUS Tourn. Tus Atmonp TrEE Lin. Syst. Icosandria 
Monogynia. 
Identification. Tourn. Inst., t. 402.; Dec. Prod., 2 p. 330. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 482. 
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