364 ICOSANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Pyrus. 



In woods and hedges, chiefly in the midland and southern counties. 



Tree. April, May. 



Of slow growth, but often of considerable size ; tlie wood hard ; 

 bark smooth. Leaves deciduous, on long stalks, broad, smooth, 

 firm, dark-green, veiny, sharply serrated, and with 7, sometimes 

 only 5, acute lobes, of which the lower pair are broadest and 

 most distant, Stipulas none. FL white, numerous, in large 

 terminal, corymbose, downy panicles. Styles 3, 4 or 5, in 

 flowers of the same panicle, and the cells of the little brown 

 dotted apples answer to them in number. This fruit, not much 

 larger than that of the Hawthorn, becomes agreeably acid and 

 wholesome, after the frost has touched it, and may sometimes 

 be seen in the London fruit-shops. Ray prefers its flavour to 

 the True Service, which latter is now become obsolete. 



4. P. domestlca. True Service-tree. 



Leaves pinnate; leaflets uniform; downy beneath ; serrated 

 towards the point. Flowers panicled. Fruit obovate. 



P. domestica. Engl. Bot. v. 5. t. 350. FL Br. 532. Camp. 77. 

 Ehrh. Beilr. v. 6. 95. Arb. 155. 



P. Sorbus. Gcertn. v. 2. 45. t. 87. 



Sorbus domestica. Linn. Sp. PI. 684. Willd. v. 2. 1009. HuJs. 

 215. With. 460. Crantz Stirp. fasc. 2. 4S. t. 2. f. 3. Jacq. 

 Austr. t. 447. Matth. Valgr. v. I ."^237./. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 106./. 



Sorbus. Raii Syn. 452. Ger. Em. 1471./. Trag. Hist. 1 1 2./. 

 Dalech. Hist. 330./. 



Sorbum ovatum. Fuchs. Hist. 576./. 



Mespilus n. 1092. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 33. 



In mountainous woods, very rare. 



In the mountainous parts of Cornwall, in many places, according 

 to Mr. Moyle and Mr. Stevens j also in the moorlands of Staf- 

 fordshire, according to Dr. Plot. Ray. In the middle of Wire 

 forest, near Bewdley. Mr. Pitts. This last is only a solitary 

 tree. Earl of Mountnorris. 



Tree. May. 



A large tree, of extremely slow growth, not bearing fruit or blos- 

 soms till it arrives at a great age. The wood is very hard. 

 Leaves deciduous, alternate, pinnate, of about 7 or 9 pair of ses- 

 sile leaflets with an odd one, all nearly uniform in size and 

 shape, oblong, unequal at the base, acute, bright green, veiny, 

 above an inch long, unequally and sharply serrated from about 

 the middle to the point ; smooth above ; clothed underneath 

 with deciduous cottony down. Stipulas linear, deciduous. Pa- 

 nicles terminal, rather oblong, partly leafy, their branches re- 

 peatedly forked, downy, with a few short, awl-shaped, deci- 

 duous bracteas. Ft. the size of Hawthorn, cream-coloured. 

 Cul. woolly. Styles always 5, with blunt, spreading, concave 



