412 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Synonymes. Méspilus L.; Pyrus W.; Ardnia Pers. a 
Derivation. According to Clusius, Amelancier is the old Savoy name for A. vulgaris. (E. of Pl.) 
Amelancier is the Savoy name for the medlar. 
Gen. Char, Calyx 5-cleft. Petals lanceolate. Stamens yather shorter than 
the calyx. Ovarium of 10-cells, or of 5 bipartite ones. Ovula 10, solitary 
in the partitions of the cells. Styles 5, joined together a little at the base. 
Pome, when mature, 3—5 celled. Seeds 3—5; endocarp cartilaginous. 
(Don's Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; serrated. Flowers white, 
in racemes. Bracteas linear lanceolate, deciduous. — Small trees, natives of 
Europe, America, or Asia. 
In British gardens, they are cultivated for their flowers, which are white, 
abundant, showy, and produced early in the season ; for their fruit, which 
ripens in June; and for the deep red, or rich yellow hue, which their foliage 
assumes in autumn. They are propagated by grafting on the hawthorn or the 
quince; or the weaker on the stronger-growing species of the genus. 
£ 1. A. vouxea'ris Meanch. The common Amelanchier. 
Identification. Moench Meth., 682.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 604. 
Synonymes. Méspilus Amelanchier Lin. Sp. 685., Jacq. Fl. Austr. t. 300.; Pyrus Ameldnchier 
Willd. Sp. 2. p. 1015. ; Ardnia rotundifolia Pers. Syn. 2. p. 39.;, Crate‘gus rotundifolia Lam. ; 
Sérbus Amelanchier Crantz ; Alisier Amelanchier, Amelanchier des Bois, Néflier A Feuilles rondes, 
Fr.; Felsenbirne, Ger. ; Pero cervino, Jtal. 
Engravings. Jacq. Fl. Austr., t. 300.; Bot. Mag., t. 2430. ; and our sig. 750. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves roundish-oval, 
bluntish, downy beneath, afterwards 
glabrous. Fruit dark blue. (Dec. Prod.) 
A déciduous low tree. Continent of 
Europe, the Alps, Pyrenees, and at Fon- 
tainbleau in France. Height 15 ft. to 
20ft. Introduced in 1596. Flowers 
white ; March and April. Fruit black, 
soft and eatable; ripe in July. Decaying 
leaves bright yellow. 
A most desirable low tree, on account 
of its early and numerous flowers, which 
cover the tree like a white sheet, about the 
middle of April, and, in very mild seasons, 
even in March. 
750. Ameldnchier vulzaris. 
22, A.(v.) Borrya'pium Dec. The Grape-Pear, or Snowy-blossomed 
Amelanchier. 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 202. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 604. 
Synonymes. Méspilus canadénsis Lin. Sp. 185.; M. arbdrea Miche. Arb, 2. t. 66.; Crate‘gus race- 
mdsa Lam. Dict. 1. g; 84.; Pyrus Botryeplum Lin. fil. Suppl. p. 255. Ardnia Botrydpium Pers 
Syn. 2, p. 39.; the Canadian Medlar, Snowy Mespilus, June Berry, wild Pear Tree; Alisier de 
Choisy, Amelanchier de Choisy, Alisier 4 Grappes, Fr.; Traubenbirne, Ger. 
Engravings. Schm. Arb., t. 84.; Willd. Abbild., t. 79.; Krause, t. 56.; the plates of this species, 
in a young and an old state, in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vi.; our fig. 751., from a specimen taken 
from the tree in the Horticultural Society's Garden, with the leaves and flowers fully expanded ; 
and figs. 752. and 753., copied from 
Michaux’s North American Sylva ; 
ig. 751. showing the plant in spring 
before the flowers are fully opened ; 
and fig. 752. showing the plant in 
fruit. Both differ in some respects 
from fig. 753. See Sir W. J. Hooker’s 
remarks under 4. ovalis, No. 4. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ob- 
long-elliptical,  cuspidate, 
somewhat villous when | 
young, afterwards glabrous. 
(Dec. Prod.) A deciduous + 
shrub or low tree, closely 752. 4. (v.) Botzyapium. 
