. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 8(U. P. (a.) ^^randifblla. oblong, or obovate, acute, glabrous. Fruit spherical, and, as well as the calyxes, glabrous. C!orymbs few-flow- ered, coarctate. Fruit with a villous disk. (Don's Mill.) A bushy shrub. Of garden origin, pro- bably a hybrid be- P. Chamaem^spilus,. tween P. arbut
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 8(U. P. (a.) ^^randifblla. oblong, or obovate, acute, glabrous. Fruit spherical, and, as well as the calyxes, glabrous. C!orymbs few-flow- ered, coarctate. Fruit with a villous disk. (Don's Mill.) A bushy shrub. Of garden origin, pro- bably a hybrid be- P. Chamaem^spilus,. tween P. arbutifolia and Height 4 ft. to 5 ft. Cultivated in 1810. Flow- ers white ; May and June. Fruit dark purple; ripe Sept. Decaying leaves purple and vellow. sos. p. («.) i[»«n«K>ii»- It bears a profusion of flowers, and dark purple fruit; and, on that account, and also on account of the purple tinge of its leaves, it is highly ornamental. Dr. Lindley considers it as the most valuable species of this division of Pyriis that has hitherto been described. § viii. Chamcemespilus Dec. Sect. Char. Petals upright, conniving, concave. Styles 2. Pome ovate. Leaves simple, glandless. Flowers in a capitate corymb. (Dec. Prod.) St 42. P. CHAMiiME'spiLUS Lindl. The dwarf Medlar. Identification. LindL in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 98.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 637. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 649. Synonymes. Cratae^gus Chamfem^spilus Jacg. Austr. t. 231. ; Jlfespilus Chamaem^spilus hin. Sp. ; 56rbus ChamEB- m^spilus Crantz Austr. 83. t. 1. f. 3.; the bastard Quince; niedriger Mispelbaum, Ger. i Camenespolo, Ital. Engravings. Jacq. Austr., t. 231.; Crantz Austr., f. 3.; and oar Jig. 806. Spec, Char., S^c. Leaves ovate, serrated, gla- brous ; except bearing on the under surface, when young, down, which is deciduous. (Dec. Prod.) A stiff-branched shrub. Europe, in rough mountainous places. Height 5 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced in 1683. Flowers white, tinted with rose; May and June. Fruit round, orange
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