648 



POMACES. X. Pyrus. 



Sound, and other parts of the north-west coast of America, apex ; stipulas clothed with rufous villi. Tj . H. Native of 



Petals roundish, white. Pome small, hardly half an inch long, Kamtschatka. 



subglobose, red or yellow. The wood is employed for making - Elder-leaved Mountain-ash. Shrub. 



wedges, and is so hard as to be susceptible of a fine polish. 



42 P. aucupa'ria (Gaertn. fruct. 2. p. 45. t. 87.) leaves pin- 



The fruit is used as an article of food, and is called in the Ian- nate, downy beneath when young ; leaflets uniform, serrated, 



guage of the Chenook tribe of Indians Pow-itch. 



glabrous ; buds and peduncles downy ; pomes globose. Tj . H. 



Riverside Wild Service-tree. Fl. Ap. May. Tree 15 to 20 ft. Native of Europe and Siberia, in mountains, woods, and hedges; 



Sect. V, Eri6lobus (from epioy, erion^ wool, and Xo/3oc, lobos^ 

 a lobe ; in reference to the woolly lobes of the calyx). D. C. 

 prod. 2, p. 636. Petals spreading, flat, somewhat unguiculate, 

 rather tridentate at the apex. Styles 5, elongated, ratlier con- 

 nected, very hairy at the base. Pome globose, glabrous, 



plentiful in some parts of Britain. Sorbus aucuparia, Lin. spec. 



683. Crantz. aust. 2. p. 49. t. 1. f. 4. 



Smith, engl. hot. t. 337. 



All. 



Mill. fig. t. 43. FL dan. 1034. Mespilus aucuparia, 

 Flowers white, numerous, with a light almond-like scent ; petals 

 concave. Fruit small, globose, scarlet, very juicy, sour, and 

 bitter ; they are eaten in some parts of Scotland and Wales, and 



crowned by the calycine lobes, which are clothed with tomentum. afford an agreeable fermented liquor, and by distillation a strong 

 37 P. triloba'ta (D. C. prod. 2. p. 636.) leaves palmate- spirit; soaked in water to extract some of its bitterness, and 

 lobed, glabrous ; middle lobe 3-lobed, lateral ones usually 2- then boiled with sugar, makes a kind of jelly, which is tolerably 



lobed ; lobules serrated. h 



Native of Mount Lebanon. flavoured. Birds of the thrush kind devour them with avidity, 



Cratae'gus trilobata, Labill. dec. 4. p. 15. t. 10. Poir. suppl. 1. and our mountain-ash trees planted for ornament in most parts 

 p. 291. Flowers white. of England are thus unfortunately stripped early in autumn of 



Thre€-lobed-\esLved Service-tree. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1810. 

 Tree 20 feet. 



Sect. VI. Sorbus (from the Celtic sormel^ composed of sor^ 

 wild, and mel^ an apple; wild apple). Lin. gen. no. 623. Petals 



their produce. The mountain-ash in profitable planting is 

 chiefly valuable as a nurse tree, growing very fast when young, 

 and enduring the most severe exposure. The timber is used 

 by wheel-wrights, and for other common country purposes ; the 

 bark is used by tanners, and the berries afford a dye. As an 



spreadin 

 binate. 



branched. 



flat or concave. Styles 2-5. Pome globose or tur- undergrowth it affords tolerable poles and hoops. It will grow 



eaves impari-pinnate. Flowers corymbose ; peduncles 



in any soil, dry or wet, and as to situation, it is fi3und on the sea 

 shore, and near the tops of the highest mountains. It seems to 



88 P. axjricula'ta (D. C. prod. 2. p. Q2G.) leaves of 3 pairs thrive best on the sides of moist rocky dells and dingles. In the 



of leaflets, hairy beneath, the lower 2 or 4 leaflets distinct, but days of superstition the mountain-ash was considered as an ob- 



the ultimate ones are joined into one large, ovate, crenated leaf- 

 let. "~ ^ 



Ij . H. Native of Egypt. Sorbus auriculkta, Pers. ench. 

 ^-i. p. Sy. Corymb compact. Flowers white. Perhaps only a Scotland. 



ariety of Sorbus pinna tijida. 



AuricledAesi\ed Service-tree or Mountain-ash. Fl. May. Clt. 

 1800. Tree 20 to 30 feet. 



ject of great veneration. It is even to be found at this day 

 growing in the neighbourhood of Druidical circles of stones in 



The roddon tree was formerly in Scotland especially 



The tree 



famous as a protection against charms and witchcraft. 



is called in Scotland rhodon or roddon tree, roan tree, and rantry. 



In England mountain-ash, quick-bean, witchen or rvhitten. In 



39 P. pinnati'fida (Ehrh. beitr. 6. p. 93. Smith, engl. bot. Germany the fowlers' bait-springs or nooses of hair, are suspended 

 2331.) leaves deeply pinnatifid or half pinnate, clothed with in the woods, with these berries attached to them to entice the 



red-wings and field-fares, whence the specific name aucuparia. 

 Fowlers' or Common Mountain-ash or Roan-tree. Fl. May. 



hoary down beneath, as well as the petioles and peduncles ; styles 

 about 3. Tj . H, Native of Gothland and Thuringia, in mountain 



woods. In the Western Isles of Scotland on the mountains, Britain. Tree 20 to 40 feet. 



particularly in rocky situations on Cairn na Callich, and other 

 mountains at the north end of the Isle of Arran. P. hybrida, 

 Smith, fl. brit. p. 534. but notof Willd. spec. 2. p. 1022. Sor- 

 bus hybrida, Lin. spec. p. 684. Lin. fil. fasc. 11. t. 6. Fl. dan. 



167. 



This 

 species is an intermediate plant between jP. aucuparia and P. 

 AWia. 



Var, /3, arhuscula (Poir. suppl. 5. p. 164.under Sorbus,) dwarf; 

 leaflets nearly glabrous, obtuse, outer ones usually confluent. 

 ^ . H. Native of Germany. This is a variety either of P. 



t. 301. Cratae^gus A'ria y Fennica, Lin. spec. ed. 2. p 

 Flowers cymose, cream-coloured. Pome globose, red. 



pinnatijida or P. aucuparia. 



Pinnatijid-\ea\ed Service-tree or Mountain-ash. 

 Scotland. Tree 20 to 30 feet. 



40 P. microca'rfa (D. C. prod. 2. p. 636.) leaves pinnate, 

 glabrous, as well as the petioles ; leaflets acuminated, unequally 

 and deeply serrated, the serratures ending in a setaceous mu- 

 crone; pome globose, red. Tj . H. Native of North America, 

 from Carolina to New York. Sorbus aucuparia a, Michx. fl. 

 bor. amer. 2. p. 291. Sorbus micrantha, Dum. Cours. ed. 2. 

 vol. 5. p. 464, S6rbus microcarpa, Pursh. fl. amer. sept. 1. p. 

 3 U. Flowers whitish. 



Small-fruited Mountain-ash. Fl. May, June. Tree 12 ft. 



41 P. SAMBuciFoLiA (Cham, in Linnaea. 2. p. 3Q.) leaves with 



Fl. May. of Nipaul. 



red. 



43 P. America'na (D. C. prod. 2. p. 637.) leaves pmnate; 

 leaflets oblong, acute, almost equally serrated, at length quite 

 glabrous ; pomes globose (purple, Pursh ; fulvous, Torrey). 



^q . H. Native of North America, in Canada and throughout 

 the woody country ; Newfoundland ; on the north-west coast, and 

 in the subalpine prairies of the high mountains. Wats. dend. 

 brit. t. 54. Flowers white. 



^Twmcan Mountain-ash. Fl. May. Clt. 1782. Tr. 15 to 20 ft. 



44 P. FOLioiosA (Wall. cat. 677. pi. asiat. rar. 2. p. 81. 

 1. 189.) leaves pinnate, with 7-8 pairs of elliptic-lanceolate, mu- 

 cronate leaflets, which are serrated at the apex, pubescent he- 

 cymes branched, terminal, pubescent. ^2 • H* Native 



Flowers white. Pome small, obovate-roundish, 



neath 



Leafy Mountain-ash. Tree 20 feet. 



45 P. Ursi'na (Wall. cat. 675.) leaves pinnate, with nume- 

 rous pairs of leaflets ; leaflets lanceolate, blunt at both ends, 

 mucronate at the apex and cuspidately serrated, rusty beneath ; 

 corymbs, branches, rachis, and nerves of leaves clothed with 

 rusty villi. Tj • H. Native of Nipaul, Kamaon, and Gosaings- 

 than. Pomes globular, red, about the size of those of the com- 

 mon mountain-ash. 



Badger's Mountain-ash. Tree. 



46 P. domk'stica (Smith, engl. bot. t. 350.) leaves pinnate ; 



h pairs of ovate, lanceolate, sharply serrated, acuminated leaflets, leaflets uniform, serrated towards the points, clothed with deci- 

 which are pilose on the nerves and margins, and bearded at the duous cottony down beneath ; buds glabrous, clammy, acumi- 



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