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There is a variety of this, generally rifing but to 

 the height of iwo or three feet. The fruit are 

 fomewhat larger and of the fame colour, but other- 

 wife much refembling the other. 



10. Mespilus canadenfis. Dwarf red fruit- 

 ed Medlar. 



This rifes to the height of four or five feet, with 

 flender fmooth ftems, much refembling the laft de- 

 fcribed, except in having fruit of a red colour when 

 ripe. There is alfo a variety of this of fmaller 

 growth, which produces fruit of a beautiful red co- 

 lour. 



Obf. The charadlers ot the Crataegus and Mefpi- 

 lus differ fo immaterially that, I fliould fuppofe, they 

 might be reduced to one Genus, with much greater 

 propriety than the Beech and Chefnut. They are 

 Genera in which much confufion prevails amongft 

 Botanical writers, fome claffing moft of the Species 

 under the Cratse^us, others the fame Species under 

 the Mefpilus ; neither is it eafy to determine to which 

 they, with moft propriety, belong. I have frequent- 

 ly obferved in fome Species from one to three ftyles, 

 in others from three to five, but not having obferved 

 any to be conftant with two, agreeably to the cha- 

 racter of the Crataegus, have ranged none under 

 that Genus. We have, native of thefe ftates, feve- 

 ral Species of Mefpilus, and a great number of Va^ 

 rieties, which, until better difcriminated and afcer- 

 tained, can never be defcribed with any degree of 

 accuracy. 



MITCHELLA. 



