ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA 295 



Aronia Botryapium. Per$* Sun. 2. p. 39. J\*utt. Gen. 1. p. 306. 

 EIL Sk. 1. p. 557. Torr. FL I. p. 479. ^twrf. Cotnp. />. 803. 

 Florul. Cestr. p. 63. JSa/. .Win/. />. 29. 

 A. arborca. Bart. Phil. 1. p. 228. 



Ptt/^— Wild Scrvice-bcrry. June berry. Snowy Medlar. Shad-flv>\vcr. 

 Stem 3 to 15 or 20 feet high, with rather slender distant branches, forming an 

 open top. Leaves 2 to 3 or 3 and a half inches long, and 1 to 2 or 2 and a half 

 inches wide, inclining more or less to obovatc, tapering rather abruptly at apes to 

 a short sharp acumination, acutely serrate, generally a little cordate at base when 

 full grown; petioles half an inch to near an inch long; stipules about half an inch 

 long, lance-linear, silky-villose, mostly tinged with purple, caducous. Flowers 

 large, in loose racemes about 2 inches long, terminating the branches, often a lit- 

 tle nodding, or pendulous, rather preceding the leaves ; pedicels half an inch to 3 

 quarters in length, more or less villose, bracteate at base, and frequently with 1 

 or 2 purple bracts near the flower. Calyx mostly smooth (sometimes villose); 

 segments lance-ovate, acuminate, villose on the margins and inner surface. Pe- 

 tals white, about 2 thirds of an inch long, and 2 lines wide, rather obtuse, narrowed 

 at base. Stamens a little longer than the calyx. Styles often united nearly to the 

 stigmas. Fruit a small roundish-ovoid pome, 2 to 3 or 4 lines in diameter, smooth* 

 ish, dark purple when mature, esculent, and not unpleasant to the taste. The 3 

 cells of the fruit often imperfectly divided by rudiments of partitions, 2-secded j 

 one of the seeds mostly abortive, and sometimes both. 



JIab. Rich, moist woodlands: frequent. //.April. /V.June—July. 



Obs. This is quite a showy little tree, when in flower;— which, happening at the 

 fishing Season, has acquired for it the name of "Shad Jloice?," or u Sfuul bush. 11 

 I have found the fruit to be considerably improved in size and quality, by long 

 culture. 



2. A. ovalis ? LindL Leaves roundish-elliptic, or oblong-oval, mu- 



cronate, tomentose beneath when young, finally smoothish ; racemes 



erect, rather coarctate ; petals obovate-oblong. Beck, Bot. p. 112- 



Mespilus nivea, var. Marsh. Arbust. p. 90. 



M. canadensis, var. obovalis. Mx. Am. I. p. 291. 



Pyrus ovalis. Willd. Sp. 2. p. 1014. Muhk Catal p. 49. Purs'h. 



Am. 1. p. 340. Big eh Bost. p. 195. 



Aronia ovalis. Pers. Syn. 2. p. 40. J\ m utt. Gen. I. p. 306. Eli. Sk. 



1. p. 558. Torr. Fl. l.p.479. Ejusd. Comp.p. 203. Florul. Cestr. 



p. 63. Eat. Man. p. 29. 



Oval Amklanchier. Vulgo — Medlar-bush. 



Stem 2 to 4 or 5 feet high, slender, branching. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, and 3 

 fourths of an inch to an inch wide, sometimes acute, but often rounded at both 

 ends, raucronate or cuspidate at apex, mostly serrate, the serratures sometimes 

 nearly obsolete, rather densely tomentose beneath when young, and often slightly 

 ferruginous, smoothish when old. Racemes and pedicels mostly erect, villose. 

 Calyx mostly tomentose. Petals white, 1 third to half an inch lonu, more or lesi 

 obovate, obtuse. Fruit about the size of the preceding, dark purple, or nearly 

 black (dark blue, Digel.) when mature. 



Hob. Fence.ro wa, and woodlands; West Chester: rare. Fl. April, May. /V.July. 

 Obs. The plant which I have taken for this species, here, often approaches the 

 preceding,-and does not seem so well marked, as specimens which I have from 

 Pokono Mountain; so that I am rather puzzled to determine whether our plant 

 is really more than a variety. There are po other species known in the V . Sta'c* 



