XXVI. ROSA‘CEE: AMELA’ NCHIER. A415 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments foliaceous. Petals nearly orbicular. 
Disk large, full of honey. Styles 2—5, glabrous. Pome turbinate, open ; 
5-celled. Endocarp bony. (Don’s Mull.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; lanceolate, serrulated. 
Flowers large, nearly sessile, usually solitary, white. Bracteas permanent.— 
Trees ; in a wild state furnished with spines. Natives of Europe. 
The first species is cultivated for its fruit, which is eatable, and the seeds of 
which are accounted anti-lithic. The second species is an ornamental shrub 
or low tree, of the general character of a Cratee‘gus. Both are propagated by 
grafting on the quince, the wild pear, or the common hawthorn ; and both 
grow freely in any common soil, rather moist than dry. 
* 1. M. cerma’nica ZL. The German, or common, Medlar. 
Identification, Lin. Sp., 684.; Pall. Fl. Ross., t. 13. f.1.; Dec. Prod, 2. p. 633.; Don’s Mill., 2. 
605 
p. 605. . 
Engravings. Pall. FL Ross., t.13. f. 1.3; the plate of this species in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vi. ; 
and our jig. 759. 
759. Méspilus germAénica.- 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves lanceolate, tomentose beneath, undivided. Flowers 
solitary. (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous tree of the second rank. Europe 
and the West of Asia, in bushy places and woods; and said to be found, 
also, in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and about Chester, in England; apparently 
in a truly wild state in Sussex. Cultivated in 1596. Flowers white ; 
May and June. Fruit brown; ripe in October and November. Decaying 
leaves dark brown, or yellow. 
Varieties. DeCandolle gives the following forms of this species, which may 
be considered as natural varieties : — 
