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arborea. 
coronaria. 
ICOSANDRIA, PENTAGYNIA. 
Black-fruited Medlar, or Swamp-service. ] 
A shrub, from eighteen inches to two feet high, resembling 
No. 1, very closely; easily distinguished, however, by the un- 
der side of the leaves being glabrous, and the fruit black, in 
the present species. Berries about the size of the largest 
whortle -berries, and quite black. In the bogs and swampy 
thickets of Jersey, every where common. . May. 
3. A. without thorns ; leaves oblong-elliptic, cus- 
pidate, the old ones smooth ; flowers racemose, 
petals linear-lanceolate, germs pubescent, cali- 
cine segments smooth. — Willd. 
Cratsegus racemosa, Lamark. 
Mespilus Canadensis, Sp. PL 685. 
M. Canadensis, /3 cordata, Mich. FI. Am. 
M. arborea, Mich. f. Arb. forest. 
Pyrus Botryapium, Willd. 
Aronia Botryapium, Pers. 
Icon. Mich. f. Arb. forest, vol. 3.^p. 68. 
June^berry. Snowy-medlar. Wild Pear-tree. 
Wild-service. 
This is an elegant, small tree, which ornaments the banks 
of our rivers and creeks, swampy woods and thickets, by its 
profusion of snow-white flowers, in the month of April, and 
beginning of May. The young leaves are folded and downy on 
the under side. When old, they become smooth underneath. 
Berries black. April. 
229. PYRUS. Gen. pi. 858. {Rosace<B.) 
Calico 5-cleft. Petals 5. Apple large and 
carnose^ inferior^, 5 -celled^ many- seeded. 
1. P. leaves broad-oval, round at the base, near- 
ly angular, serrate, smooth, peduncles corym- 
bose. — M^illd. and Piirsh. 
Malus coronaria, Mich. f. Arb. forest. 
