ICOSANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Sorbus. 
gO never remembers it, otherwise than as it now a appears. There 
is another tree of the same kind 2 or 3 miles from Glastonbury. 
They tell you it has no thorns, but chat I found to be a mistake : 
~ duce pte nowise differin fies” the common Hawthorn. 
robably - tree which gave birth to the legend grew within 
hie wails f the abbey, and may have died from age, or been 
aotoved af the time of the reformation. 
TRIGYNIA. 
SOR’BUS. Cal. 5-cleft: petals 5 : pomum 5-celled, 
open at the top, 3-seeded. 
S, Leaves winged, smooth on both sides. 
Mill. ill.—Hunt. Evel. 218. i. p. 211. ed. 2d—Fl. dan. 1034— 
E. bot. 337-Blackw. 173-—Matth. 262—Dod. 834-Ger. 
Cm. 1473-Lob. obs. 544, 2 ~F. B. i. ae 62—Ger. 1290— 
Park, 1419. 2-Trag. 1009-Crantz.i ii. 1.4, 
Leaves, rib channelled. Leafits 7 or8 pair, sitting, spear- 
s serrated, the intermediate ones the longest. Corymbus 
terminating. Berry round, of a pleasant red or scarlet. Seeds 3, 
4, 5) reddish. RetHan. Flowers whitis 
Quicken-tree. Mountain Ash. Roa. said. Service. Woods 
and hedges in mountainous and boggy situations in Wales, Scot- 
land, and the North of England,.* 
S. Leaves winged, woolly underneath. 
Facq. austr. 447~-E, bot. 350—Crantz, ii. 2. 3~Nash. i. at p. 
* It ; in is or open fields, but best on the sides of hills 
and in fertile soil It ve not bear lopping. Plants grow well in its 
shade. ood is soft, tough, and solid. It is converted into tables, 
spokes for wheels, shafts, chairs, &c. The roots are formed into handles 
for knives, and wooden spoons. berries dried and reduced to powder 
ma’ " n spirit may be distilled from them, 
hich a r, but it is small in q The berries too, i 
zi 
by the poorer people in Wales. in n Germany the fowlers use 
to entice the R msl pea. Fieldfares into nooses of hair suspended in the \ 
‘woods ; hence its triy 
HHO 
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aucupa’ria, 
domes’tica, 
