336 The U, [feful Family Herbal. 
~The RicHut SERVICE*TREE. 
SORBUS LEGITIMA. 
A Tree wild in fome Parts of this Kingdom, but 
“~ not known in others, nor even in many of 
our Gardens. It grows twenty Feet high or more, 
and the Branches ftand very irregularly. The 
Leaves are each coinpofed of feveral Pairs of 
fmaller, fet on a common Rib, with an odd one. 
at the End; thefe are long, narrow, and ferrared, 
fo that they have fome Refemblance of the Afh- 
Tree. The Flowers are not large, they are white, 
and ftand in Clufters. Each is fucceeded by a 
Fruit of the Shape of a Pear, and of the Bignefs 
of fome Pears of the fmaller Kind, thefe are green, 
except where they have been expofed to the Sun, 
where they are fometimes redifh ; the Tafte is very 
pleafant, when they are ripe. & 
The unripe Fruit is ufed; they prefs the Juice, 
- and give it againit Purgings, but it is little 
Large Tree and very beautiful, its Growth 
being regular, and the Leaves of an elegant 
ne te the Bark of the Trunk is greyifh, and to- 
lerably fmooth ; on the Branches it is brown: 
The Leaves are fingle, large, and of a rounded 
Figure, but fe five, fix, or feven ee 2 
pretty deeply, and ferrated round the Edges, they 
bright Green on the upper Part, and See 
are. 
___ yellowifh, and they grow in Clufters; the Fruit 
_ is fmall and brown when ripe. It grows in 
th. The Flowers are little and 
