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There is a variety of this, generally rifing but to 
the height of two 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, \toth 
ilender fmopth hems, 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 characters of the Crataegus and Mefpi- 
lus differ fo immaterially that, I fhould 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 amoijgft 
Botanical writers, fome claffmg moft of the Species 
under the Crataegus, 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 deferibed with any degree of 
accuracy. 
MITCHELLA. 
