566 34? 7. Mespilus. 57. POMACEfE. PL ex. cal. 
Woods and hedges ; arborescent; May. 
Branches thorny ; leaves bald on both sides ; flowers 
white or rose-colour ; berry red or yellow. — Plant excellent 
for fences; wood hard and tough. 
(3. Glasionburiensis. Stipules very large, kidneyshape, 
toothed ; flowers large, coming out twice a year. 
Crataegus Oxyacantha 4, With. Bot.Arr. 561. 
Glastonbury thorn. 
b. Leaves not cut. 
3. Mespilus Germanica. German medlar. 
Leaves lanceolate, tomentose beneath ; flowers sessile, 
solitary, terminal ; calyx-lobes long, pointed. 
Mespilus, Gillen in Raii Syn. 453, 1*. 
Mespilus Germanica, Lin. S. P. 684. 
Hedges; arborescent; May. 
Branches thorny ; leaves lanceolate ; flowers white, downy, 
tip fringed; fringes large. — Fruit, when thoroughly ripe, 
acerb, astringent. 
j3. saliva. Stem and branches spineless ; leaves ovate, 
lanceolate. 
Mespilus sativa, Ger. em. 1453, 1. 
Mespilus vulgaris, Park. 1422. 
Cultivated for its fruit. 
y. abortiva. Stem spineless ; styles and seed 0. 
Fam. XXIII. 58, ROSACEfE. 
Calyx persisting, pitchershape, contracted at the neck, 
limb divided; lobes sometimes with appendages; petals 5, 
inserted on the top of the calyx; stamens numerous, inde- 
finite, inserted on the calyx under the petals ; ovaries free, 
many, enclosed in the fleshy, persistent calyx ; ovules pen- 
dulous; styles many, 1 to each ovary, terminal, with a lateral 
furrow; stigmata oblique; ahenium 1 -seeded; perisperm 0; 
corculum straight; radicle above. — Stem shrubby, woody, 
when injured a strong shoot overtopping the original stem 
is thrown up from the root; leaves pinnate; stipules adhe- 
rent to the petiole, armed with thorns, or bristles; bristles 
always straight and tipped with a gland; plants polymor- 
phous, species difficultly distinguishable. 
