362 ICOSANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Pyius. 



Styles 5, with acute stigmas. Fruit obovate, generally hard and 

 austere, but liable, even in a wild state, to many varieties, and 

 sometimes eatable. The cultivated sorts, as every body knows, 

 are innumerable. The wood is light, of a fine grain, and to- 

 lerably hard. 



2. P. Mains. Wild Apple-tree. Crab-tree. 



Leaves simple, serrated. Flowers in a simple sessile umbel. 



P. Malus. Linn. Sp. PI. 686. WilhL v. 2. 1017. /'/. Br. 531. 



Engl. Bot. V. 3. ^.179. Hook. Scot. 151. Ehr/i. PL Of 405. 

 P. n. 1 097. Hall. Hist. v. 2.35. 

 Malus sylvestris. Raii Syn. 452. Ger.Em. 1461./. 

 Mala. Camer. Epit. 141./. 



In woods, hedges and parks. 



Tree. May. 



Of more humble stature than the preceding, with spreading, irre- 

 gular, more horizontal branches, altogether destitute of thorns , 

 the leafy flowering shoots short and rugged. Leaves more or 

 less elliptical, seldom losing all their serratures ; the young ones 

 downy beneath. Stipulas linear, combined with the footstalks. 

 Fl. umbellate, not corymbose, beautifully variegated with white 

 and rose-colour, and slightly fragrant. Stalks and calyx more or 

 less cottony. Styles 5. Fruit with 5 cartilaginous bivalve cells, 

 globose, umbilicated at the bottom as well as the top, yellowish 

 with a tinge of red, very acid and astringent ; yet there are se- 

 veral varieties among the wild crabs, some of which are of ex- 

 cellent flavour when baked with plenty of sugar, even surpass- 

 ing many cultivated apples. The expressed juice of any of them, 

 called verjuice, is used to cure sprains and scalds, being often 

 kept by good housewives in the country for that purpose. 



3. P. to7^7?imaiis. Wild Service-tree. 



Leaves simple, somewhat heart-shaped, serrated, seven- 

 lobed ; the lower lobes spreading. Flower-stalks corym- 

 bose, branched. 



P. torminalis. Fl. Br. 532. Comp. 77. Ehrh. Beitr. v. 6. 92. WiUd, 



Sp. PL V. 2. ]02\. 

 Crataegus torminalis. Linn. Sp. PL GS\. Huds.2\4. With. 458. 



Sibth. 156. EngL Bot. v. 5. t. 298. FL Dan. t. 798. Jacq. Austr. 



t. 443. MilL lilustr. t. 42. Piirton 235. 

 C. Theophrasti. Dalech. Hist 99. / 332./. 

 Mespilus n. 1088. HalL Hist. v. 2. 31 . 

 M. apii folio sylvestris non spinosa, seu Sorbus torminalis. Raii 



Syn. 453. 

 Sorbus torminalis. Ger. Em. 1471./. Trag. Hist. 1010. f. Cord. 



Hist. 1 76,samef. Matth. Valgr. v. 1 . 239/. Camer. Epit.l62.f, 



