. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 292 MALACEAE. Vol. II. I. Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Medic. June-berry. Service-berry. May-or Sand-cherry. Fig. 1753- 1781. 18-15. 1793- Mcspiliis canadensis L. Sp. PI. 478. Pyrus Botryapium L. i. Suppl. 255. A. Botryapium DC. Prodr. 2 : 632. A, canadensis Medic. Geschichte 79. A tree sometimes reaching the height of 60°, with trunk diameter of 2°, but
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 292 MALACEAE. Vol. II. I. Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Medic. June-berry. Service-berry. May-or Sand-cherry. Fig. 1753- 1781. 18-15. 1793- Mcspiliis canadensis L. Sp. PI. 478. Pyrus Botryapium L. i. Suppl. 255. A. Botryapium DC. Prodr. 2 : 632. A, canadensis Medic. Geschichte 79. A tree sometimes reaching the height of 60°, with trunk diameter of 2°, but usually lower, sel- dom over 25° high. Leaves ovate or oval, acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded or cordate at the base, sharply and finely serrate, sometimes sparingly pubescent when young, soon entirely gla- brous, or the under surface sometimes persistently pubescent, i'-3' long, or larger on young shoots; racemes spreading or drooping, pedicels long, slender; bracts silky, purplish, deciduous; petals linear, linear-spatulate, or linear-oblong, 6"-9" long, 3-4 times the length of the nearly or quite glabrous calyx; pome globose, red or purple, sweet. In dry woodlands, Nova Scotia to western Ontario, Arkansas, Florida and Louisiana. Wood very hard, brown; weight per cubic foot 49 lbs. Service-tree. May-, juice-, or wild Indian-pear. Indian-cherry. Sugar- pear,-plum, or-berry. Shad-bush. Boxwood. Bill-berry. June-plum. March-May. Fruit ripe June-July. Amelanchier laevis Wiegand, of similar range, ex- tending north to Newfoundland, with leaves glabrous or nearly so from the first, may be distinct. 2. Amelanchier intermedia Spach. Shad-bush. Swamp Sugar- Pear. Fig. 2330. A. intermedia Spach, Hist. Veg. 2: 85. 1834. Amelanchier canadensis var. oblongifolia T. & G. Fl. N. A. I : 473. 1840. A shr'ub or small tree, sometimes 30° high, the foliage and inflorescence densely white- woolly when young, often nearly or quite gla- brous when old. Leaves oval, oblong,
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