This is a variety of the preceding, and closely resembles it in all its parts, except that it is much larger. “La Pomme Rose resemble extremement partout son exterieur a la Pomme d’Apis, mais à mon goût elle ne la vaut pas quoy que puissent dire les curieux du Rhône, qui la veulent autant élever aussi au dessus des autres, qu’ils élevent la Poire Chat au dessus des autres Poires.”--_De Quintinye._ 8. API ETOILLE.--Diel. IDENTIFICATION.--Diel. Kernobst. B. iv. 31. SYNONYMES.--Pomme Etoillée, _Duh. Arb. Fr._ I. 312. Pomme d’Etoille, _Ibid._ Gelber Sternförmiger Api, _Diel Kernobst._ B. iv. 31. Sternapfel, _Christ Handworter_, 106. _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 3, n. 797. This is a variety of the Api, from which it is distinguished by being very much flattened, and furnished with five very prominent angles on the sides, which give it the appearance of a star, hence its name. It is of a deep yellow on the shaded side, and redish orange next the sun. It is a well-flavored apple, but only of second-rate quality. It ripens about the middle or end of September. The variety received under this name by the London Horticultural Society must have been incorrect, as in the last edition of their catalogue it is made synonymous with Api Petit. 9. API NOIR.--Duh. IDENTIFICATION.--Duh. Arb. Fr. I. 311. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. SYNONYME.--Schwarzer Api, _Diel Kernobst._ ix. 214. FIGURE.--Poit et. Turp. pl. 137. Fruit, small, but a little larger and somewhat flatter than the Api, to which it bears a close resemblance. Skin, tender, smooth, and shining as if varnished, and almost entirely covered, where exposed to the sun, with very dark crimson, almost approaching to black, like the Pomme Violette, but becoming paler towards the shaded side, where there is generally a patch of light yellow; it is strewed with fawn-colored dots, and some markings of russet. Eye, very small, set in a pretty deep and plaited basin. Stalk, slender, about three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a rather deep, wide, and funnel-shaped cavity, which is slightly marked with russet. Flesh, pure white, firm and juicy, tinged with red under the skin, and with a pleasant, vinous, and slightly perfumed flavor. A dessert apple, inferior to the Api, and cultivated merely for curiosity. It is in use from November to April, but is very apt to become meally. The habit of the tree is similar to that of the Api, but it is rather a larger grower. 10. AROMATIC RUSSET.--Lind. IDENTIFICATION.--Lind. Guide, 86. Rog. Fr. Cult. 105. FIGURE.--Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. viii.