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The Hawthorn among the Highlanders is the badge of the Ogilvies, 
In the well-known lines of Milton— 
“ And every shepherd tells his tale 
Under the Hawthorn in the dale,” 
great have been the disputes as to what the shepherd is supposed to tell ; whether 
it be the éails of his sheep or his tale of love, is still a matter undecided. 
There are several varieties of Hawthorn, some having fine bright scarlet berries, 
others fruit of golden yellow. 
GHNUS XVI—PYRUS. (Linn.), Lindley. 
Calyx-tube urceolate, adhering to the ovary, lamina free, 
divided into 5 short lobes or teeth. Petals 5, inserted in the throat 
of the calyx, sub-orbicular. Stamens numerous, inserted with the 
petals. Ovary inferior, 5-celled, rarely 2- or 3-celled, each cell 
containing 2 collateral ascending ovules. Styles 5, distinct or 
cohering at the base, sometimes only 2 or 3. Fruit ovoid, roundish, 
or turbinate, crowned by the withering calyx-segments, closed at 
the apex, where there is a very small concavity, fleshy, containing 
5, more rarely 1 to 4, cartilaginous or parchment-like cells, cohering 
together and forming a core, each cell containing 2 seeds or (by 
abortion) only 1. 
Trees or shrubs, with simple or pinnate leaves, and white or 
rose-coloured flowers in spreading, terminal, simple or compound 
corymbose cymes. Bracts subulate, deciduous. 
The name of this genus is derived from the Celtic word peren, a pear. 
Sus-Genvus I.—SORBUS. Linn. 
Fruit small or rather small, sub-globular or turbinate-sub- 
globular, containing 2 to 5 cells; cells formed of thin brittle 
membrane, 1-seeded by abortion. Flowers mostly in compound 
corymbose cymes, cream-white. Petals spreading. Styles 2 to 5, 
distinct or united below. 
SPECIES L—PYRUS TORMINALIS. Zivh. 
Puats CCCCLXXXI. 
Sorbus torminalis, Crantz. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 263. Fries, 
Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 42. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 574. 
Crateegus torminalis, Linn, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 298. 
Leaves broadly ovate, downy when young, glabrous on both 
sides when mature, truncate rounded or sub-cordate at the base, 
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