. ear-tree Sugar Plum, June-Berry, j Anslo-America. Shad-blow, Shad-flower, J Derivations. The specific name, botri/apium, \a derived from the Greek botrus, a grape, in reference to the form of thefruit, and the Celtic apon, water, probably from the circumstance of this species usually growing along streams and in swampygrounds. The German name signifies Grape-pear. It is called June Berry, on account of the ripening of its fruit in some partsof the country in the month of June, before that of any other tree; and it is named Shad-bl
. ear-tree Sugar Plum, June-Berry, j Anslo-America. Shad-blow, Shad-flower, J Derivations. The specific name, botri/apium, \a derived from the Greek botrus, a grape, in reference to the form of thefruit, and the Celtic apon, water, probably from the circumstance of this species usually growing along streams and in swampygrounds. The German name signifies Grape-pear. It is called June Berry, on account of the ripening of its fruit in some partsof the country in the month of June, before that of any other tree; and it is named Shad-blow because the opening of its blos-soms indicates the season at which tlie sliad ascend the rivers, on the banks of which it sometimes abounds. Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 66; Audubon, Birds of America, !., pi. Ix.; Loudon, Arboretum Britan-nicum, ii., fig. 628, and vi., pi. 162 et 163; and the figures below. Specific Characters. Leaves oblong-elliptical, cuspidate, somewhat villous when young, afterwardsbrous.—De Candolle, Prodromus. ?la. Description. I HE Amelanchier cana-densis, in favourablesituations, sometimesWJs<^-^*ls^m attains a height of thir-ty or forty feet, Avith a diameter of ten ortwelve inches. Its leaves are from two to threeinches long, alternate, of a lengthened ovalshape, finely toothed, and, when beginning toopen, are covered with a thick, silvery down,which disappears with their growth, andleaves them perfectly smooth on both flowers, which are white, and ratherlarge, are disposed in long panicles at the ex-tremities of the branches, and expand in theCarolinas and Georgia in February and March,and in the middle and northern states in Apriland May. The fruit is of a globular form, about one fourth of an inch in diam-eter, red in an immature state, and of a dark-purple when fully ripe, and iscovered with a bloom. It matures at the south in the month of June, and fromone to two months later in the more northern regions where
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