An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 3. Arotiia melanocarpa (Michx.) Britton. Black Chokeberry. Chokepear. Fig. 2328. Mcspilus arbutifolia var. nigra Willd. Sp. PI. 2: loij. I'ioo. Mespilus arbutifolia var. melanocarpa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. I : 292. 1803. Pyrus melanocarpa Willd. Enum. 525. 1809. Pyrus nigra Sargent, Gard. &; For. 3: 416. 1890. Aronia ni
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 3. Arotiia melanocarpa (Michx.) Britton. Black Chokeberry. Chokepear. Fig. 2328. Mcspilus arbutifolia var. nigra Willd. Sp. PI. 2: loij. I'ioo. Mespilus arbutifolia var. melanocarpa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. I : 292. 1803. Pyrus melanocarpa Willd. Enum. 525. 1809. Pyrus nigra Sargent, Gard. &; For. 3: 416. 1890. Aronia nigra Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5; 182. 1894. A shrub resembling the preceding species. Leaves obovate or oval, obtuse, acute or abruptly acuminate at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, short- petioled. crenulate, dark green above, paler beneath, glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces; flowers simi- lar to the preceding; and pedicels nearly gla- brous; calyx-lobes glandular; fruit globose or oval, nearly black, or purplish black, 3'-4' in diameter, early deciduous. In swamps or low woods, or sometimes in drier soil, Xova Scotia to western Ontario, south to Florida and Michigan. Ascends to 6000 ft. in North Carolina. March-June. AMELANCHIER Medic. Phil. Bot. 5. ,APiK,tiiii,ix. .\ieaic. rnu. £>ot. i: 155. 1789. Shrubs or trees, with alternate simple petioled serrate or entire leaves, unarmed branches, and racemose or rarely solitary white flowers. Calyx-tube campanulate. more or less adnate to the ovary, s-lobed, the lobes narrow, reflexed, persistent. Petals 5. Stamens =0, inserted on the throat of the calyx; filaments subulate; styles 2-5, connate, pubescent at the base. Ovary wholly or partly inferior, its cavities becoming twice as many as the styles; ovule I in each cavity, erect. Pome small, berry-like, 4-ro-celIed. Testa of the seed cartilaginous. [The Savoy name of the Medlar.] species, natives of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, some
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