183 APPLEWORTS. 
Habitat. Middle of Europe. 
Quality and Uses, Asin P. Malus. The fermented juice is perry. 
3. P. Aucuparia Gertner.—(The Mountain Asu.) j 
Leaves pinnated, nearly smooth; leaflets serrated ; buds downy; fruit 
globose. 
Habitat. Woods, a . 
Quality and Uses. Flowers, bark, and root yield hydrocyanic acid in large quantity. 
Berries contain malic acid in abundance. 
- Cyponta. Tournefort. 
Pruit 5-celled, with a cartilaginous endocarp ; and many mucilaginous 
seeds in each cell. 
1. C. vulgaris Persoon.—(The Quince Tree.) Fig. 253. 
Leaves ovate, entire, deciduous, downy on the under side, as 18 
calyx ; sepals leafy. 
also the 
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Habitat, South of Europe. 
ity. Fruit, when stewed, an agreeable food; mu 
U, emulcent, emollient. (Enanthic ether occurs 
8. Fruit forms a marmalade much esteemed ; 
wine ; mucilage of seeds applied externally to cracked 
painful hemorrhoids, erysipelatous affections of the skin. 
Ls 
. Natural Order, Rosewarts; Rosacew (V. K., p. 563.) 
Prevailing Quality. Astringency. 
— Porentina. Linneus. 
re 4-5-lobed, with as many bracts. sae a 
«++ reptans Linneeus.—(Cinquerort. Five - pee 
osm creeping ; “er OE rh obovate, toothed ; calyx 5-lobed ; flow 
Th axillary, solitary, longer than the leaves. 
bitat. Common in hedges and woods. ‘ 
Quality and Uses. Like those of P. Tormentilla, Also a febrifuges 
wise. 
Fig. 252.—Flowers of Pyrus communis; 253. Fruit of Cydonia vulgaris cut length: 
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