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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICKTUM. 



1>ART Hi 



a 30. P. ORAXDiro v LiA LindL The large-leaved Aronia. 



Identification. LindL Hort. Trans., 7. p. 232. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1154. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 649. 

 Engrarings. Bot. Reg., t. 1154. j and our Jig. (vM). 



Spec. Char., #c. Stem erect, and, as well as the branches, smoothish. Leaves 

 oblong, or obovate, acute, glabrous. Fruit spherical, and, as well as the 

 calyxes, glabrous. Corymbs few-flowered, 

 coarctate. Fruit with a villous disk. (Don's 

 Mill., ii. p. 649.) Native of North America ; 

 introduced in IS 10, and flowering in May and 

 June. Its flowers are white, its fruit dark 

 purple. A shrub, growing from 4 ft. to 5 ft. 

 high ; bearing a profusion of flowers, and dark 

 purple fruit ; and, on that account, and also on 

 account of the purple tinge of its leaves, highly 

 ornamental. Dr. Lindley considers it as the 

 most valuable species of this division of Pyrus 

 that has hitherto been described. 



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§ viii. Chamcemespilus Dec. 



Sect. Char. Petals upright, conniving, concave. Styles 2. Pome ovate. 

 Leaves simple, glandless. Flowers in a capitate corymb. (Dec. Prod., ii. 

 p. 637.) 



& 40. P. CHAMiEME^PiLUS LindL The dwarf Medlar. 



Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 98. ; Dec. «-.,., 



Prod., 2. p. 637. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 649. \ ■; ■ ■ A 



Synonyynes. Crataegus Chama2me\spilus Jacq. Austr., t. 231. ; 

 ' JV/espilus ChamaDinespilus Lin. Sp., 685. ; Sorbus Chama?- 

 mespilus Crantz Austr., 83. 1. 1. f. 3. ; the bastard Quince. 



Engravings. Jacq. Austr., t. 231. ; Crantz Austr., 83. t. 1. 

 f. 3. ; and out Jig. 651. 



Spec. Char., Sf-c. Leaves ovate, serrated, gla- 

 brous, except bearing on the under surface, 

 w'hen young, down, which is deciduous. 

 Flowers white, tinted with rose. (Dec. Prod., 

 ii. p. 637.) A shrub, a native of rough 

 mountainous places in Europe ; growing to 

 the height of 5 ft. or 6 ft., and flowering in 

 May and June. It was introduced in 1683, 

 and is occasionally met with in collections. 

 There are plants of it at Messrs. Loddiges, 

 and in the Camber well Nursery, at Is. 6d. 

 each ; and as the plant forms a compact bush, 

 and flowers and fruits in the greatest abun- 

 dance, it merits to be much more extensively 

 introduced into collections than it appears to 

 have hitherto been. It grafts beautifully on 

 the common hawthorn ; and, indeed, whoever 

 has a quickset hedge may have a collection of 

 all the species of this genus. 



App. i. Species of Yijrus not sufficiently known. 



P. ulni/olia LtDdL in Lin. Trans., 13. p. 98., is a native of North America, at Fort Mandon, with 

 gMbroui roundish leaves, feather-nerved, and rather glaucous beneath. The fruit black and 

 sugary. 



J' ftsHtflrffljil D«. Prod, 2. p. W7. ; Malus tomentbsa Dum. Cours., ed. 2. 5. p. 438. ; is a native of 

 to be allied to P. bare ita ; but the flowers, as well as fruit, are unknown. 



P, rubicuruta Hoffman*. ( Verx , 1824, p. 192. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 637.) has the leaves oval-acuminate, 

 with a fru it- partly red and partly yellow, somewhat resembling the common apple, but covered with 

 a glaucous bloom. Its native country is unknown. 



