sent to the Horticultural Society by William Williams, Esq., 
Governor of Moose Factory, in 1824. 
We possess specimens collected by the late Mr. Frazer, 
in the southern states of North America; and Pursh gives 
the banks of the Columbia as another station : but it is to 
be suspected that he confounded with it two very distinct 
species seen by Mr. Douglas in that country. 
A deciduous shrub, growing in the garden 3 or 4 feet 
high, with red branches. Leaves oblong, obtuse at each 
end, always smooth, finely serrulated, finally subcoriaceous, 
like the other Amelanchiers. Stipules plumose, deciduous. 
Racemes terminal, contracted or capitate, smooth, with 
deciduous, plumose bractez. Calyves externally smooth, 
internally woolly. Petals linear-oblong, somewhat cuneate. 
Fruit pea-shaped, ovate, deep purple. 
J.L. 
