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A1UJOKETUM AND FRUTICLTUM. 



Genus XVI. 



TART III. 



lit 



AMELA'XCHIER Med. 



The Amelanchier 

 Di-Pentagynia. 



Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 100. 



Lin. Syst. Icosandria 



Dec. Prod., 2. p. 652. ; 



Identification. Med. Gosch., 1793. : 



Don's MM., 2. p. 604. 

 Si/notii/mcs. Afespilas L. ; Pftus IV. ; Arbnia Pers. 

 Derivation. According to Clusius, Amelancier is the old Savoy name for A. vulgaris. {E. of PL) 



Amehtnchier is the Savoy name for the medlar. 



Description, Src. Small trees, natives of Europe and North America, with 

 simple, serrated, deciduous leaves, white flowers in racemes, and linear- 

 lanceolate deciduous bracteas. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 632.) 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. vulgaris Mcench. The common Amelanchier. 



Identification. Mcench Meth., 682. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 604. 



Synonymes. 3/espilus Ameldnchier Lin. Sp., 685., Jacq. Fl. Austr., t. 300. ; Pyrus Ameldnchier 



Willd. Sp., 2. p. 1015. ; Arbnia rotundifblia Pers. Syn., 2. p. 39. ; Crataegus rotundifblia Lam. ; 



Sorbus Ameldnchier Crantz; Alisier Amelanchier, Amelanchier des Bois, Neflier a Feuilles rondes, 



Fr. ; Felsenbirne, Ger. 



Engravings. Jacq. Fl. Austr.,.t. 300. ; Bot. Mag., t. 2430. ; our fig. 626.; and the plate in Vol. II. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves roundish-oval, 

 bluntish, downy beneath, afterwards 

 glabrous. Fruit dark blue. {Dec. Prod., 

 ii. p. 632.) A native of mountainous 

 woods, among rocks, in different parts of + 

 the Continent of Europe; the Alps, the /v 

 Pyrenees, and at Fontainbleau ; and in ^^ 



There are trees of this 



cultivation in England since 1596. It 

 forms a most desirable low tree, on ac- 

 count 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. The fruit 

 is round, soft, and eatable : it ripens in 

 July, and soon drops off, or is eaten by the birds, 

 species at Syon, from 15 ft. to 20 ft. in height. 

 2 2. A. (v.) Botryapium 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 6C4 

 Synonymes. Attspilus canadensis Lin. Sp., 185. ; M. arbbrea Michx. Arb., 2. t. 66. ; Crataegus race 



mbsa Lam. Diet., 1. p. 84. ; Pyrus 



Botryapium Lin. fit. Suppl., p. 255. ; 



Arbnia Botryapium Pers. Syn., 2. 



p. 39. ; the Canadian Medlar, Snowy 



Mespilus, June Berry, wild Pear 



Tree; Alisier de Choisy, Amelan- 

 chier de Choisy, Alisier a Grappes, 



Fr. ; Traubenbirne, Ger. 

 Engravings. Schm. Arb., t. 84. ; 



Wild. Abbild., t. 79. ; Krause, t. 56.; 



the plates of this species, in a young 



and an old state, in Vol. II.; our 



fig. 629., from a specimen taken 



from the tree in the Horticultural 



Society's Garden, with the leaves -t 



and flowers fully expanded ; and 

 fig*. 627. and 628., copied from Michattx's North American Sylva; fig. 627. showing the plant in 

 spring before the Bowers are Ifully opened; and fig. 628. showing the plant in fruit. Both differ 

 in am r< peel twin fig. 629* See sir W. J. Hooker's remarks under A. oralis, No. 4. 



Spec. Char.,8fc* Leavee oblong-elliptical, cuspidate, somewhat villous when 

 agt afterwards glabrous. Native of Virginia and Canada. (Dec. Prod., 



