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and rooting at the joints. The fruit is intermediate 
in colour between P. arbutifolia and P. melano- 
carpa, being of a reddish black. 
A very desirable shrub, frequent in collections, and known 
in the nurseries under the name of Méspilus arbutifolia. It 
is prolific in flowers, which are produced in May, and which 
are followed by dark red or purple fruit, which, when not 
eaten by birds, will remain on the bushes till the following 
April or May, when the plant is again in flower. This species, 
whether as a bush, or grafted standard high on the common 
thorn, is highly ornamental in spring, when it is covered with 799, p. a. pamita. 
its profusion of white flowers; in autumn, when its foliage 
assumes a deep red or purple; and in winter, after the leaves have dropped, 
when it is still enriched with its persistent fruit. It is propagated by layers, 
suckers, or seeds; but most frequently by suckers. There was, in 1835, 
a remarkably fine plant of this species, grafted standard high, in Knight’s 
Exotic Nursery: it had attained the height of 10 or 12 feet ; its branches hung 
down gracefully to the ground, not in one mass, but in varied tufts ; and 
their appearance in autumn, when they were of an intensely purple red, was 
beyond expression interesting and beautiful. 
& 37. P.(4.) mELaNoca’RPA W. The black-fruited Aronia, 
Identification. Willd. Enum., 525.; Ph. Sept., 1. p. 339.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 637. ; Don’s Mill., 2. 
Seas. P. arbutifdlia 8 Willd. Sp. 2. p. 1013.3 Ardnia arbutifdlia Pers. Syn. 2. p. 39.; Més- 
pilus capittta Lodd. ; M. floribtinda Lodd.; M. pubens Lodd. Cat. 1836. 
Engravings. Schmidt Arb., t.86.; Krause, t. 79.; and our jig. 800. * 
Spec. Char.. §c. Leaves obovate-oblong, acuminate, 
serrated, glabrous beneath; the midrib glandulous 
above. Corymb more crowded than in P. arbutifolia. 
Calyx glabrous. Pome black. (Dec. Prod.) A de- 
ciduous shrub. North America, in Canada, in bogs, 
and on the high mountains of Carolina and Virginia ; 
and judging from the plants in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, and in the arboretum of Messrs. 
Loddiges, nothing more than a variety of P. arbuti- 
folia. Height 4ft. to 5ft. Cultivated in 1700. 
Flowers white ; May. Fruit large, black, resembling § 
in taste those of Vaccinium pennsylvanicum ; ripe in \ 
September. 
Variety. 
x P. (a.) m. 2 subpubéscens Lindl. (Hort. Trans., 
vil. p.232.; Don’s Mill., ii. p. 649.), P. m. — g00. p. (a.) metanocdrpa. 
xanthocarpa Hort., has the leaves, when 
young, tomentose beneath, but glabrous in the adult state. 
P. (a.) melanocarpa or its variety, grafted standard high on the common 
hawthorn, forms a truly interesting pendulous, and at the same time pictu- 
resque, tree ; and we can scarcely sufficiently recommend it for small shrub- 
beries and suburban gardens. As its berries are not so greedily eaten by birds 
as those of most of the other Rosacez, in mild winters they remain on till the 
following summer, and mix beautifully with the flowers in June. It gratts 
readily on the common hawthorn; and it, and all the other species and varieties 
belonging to the section Adenérachis, might be introduced into our common 
hedges by any countryman who could graft, thus rendering them truly orna- 
mental. 
i 38. P. (4.) FLoRIBU/‘NDA Lindl. The abundant-flowered Aronia. 
Identification, Lindl. Hort. Trans., 7. p. 230. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1006. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 649. 
Engravings. Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1006.; and our jig. 801. 
