242 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
acuminate at the apex, with 3 or more triangular serrated lobes 
on each side; lobes usually acuminate and very acute at the apex, 
the basal ones spreading, incisions between the lobes deepest 
towards the base; veins 3 to 6 on each side. Flowers in com- 
pound corymbs, with the pedicels and calyx-tube densely pubes- 
cent. Styles 2 to 5, glabrous. Fruit roundish-ovoid, brown, 
speckled with whitish points when ripe. 
In woods, copses, and hedges. Rather rare; confined to the 
southern half of England, where it is probably wild as far north as 
Norfolk and South Wales. In Scotland it only oceurs in orna- 
mental plantations. : 
England, [Scotland]. Tree. Early Summer. 
A tree sometimes 30 or 40 feet high, but often much less. q 
Bark purplish-brown, the young shoots downy. Leaves 2 to 4 
inches long when full grown, and often nearly as broad when mea- 
sured from tip to tip of the basal lobes, which are separated for 
from half to three-quarters of their length from the adjacent ones ; 
margins of the lobes irregularly serrated.. Corymbs 10- to 50. 
flowered, from the termination of the shoots of the same year, 
rather lax. Flowers $ inch across, white. Calyx-segments deltoid, 
sub-glabrous. Petals orbicular, suddenly contracted into a short 
claw. Styles generally 2. Fruit 4 to ? inch long, olive-brown with 
pale rough dots. Cells of the fruit generally 2, each containing a 
single seed. Leaves firm when old, and then glabrous except on 
the veins beneath. 
Very distinct from the other British species, as Sorbus latifolia, 
Persoon, the connecting link between P. torminalis and P. Aria, 
does not occur in Britain. 
Wild Service-tree. 
French, Alisier Torminal. German, Elsbeere, Ruhrbirne, 
This tree grows to a height of forty or fifty feet in woods and hedgerows. It 
generally grows in clayey soils. Miller, writing in 1752, says that it was formerly 
very abundant in Cane Wood, near Hampstead. One of the finest specimens in 
England i in Loudon’s time was at Arley Hall, near Bewdley. The fruit is sometimes 
brought to market both in England and France, and when in a partial state of decay, 
eats somewhat like a medlar. As an ornamental tree, its large green buds recommend 
it in the winter time, as its fine large-lobed leaves do in the summer, and its clusters of 
brown fruit in the autumn. The wood is hard and tough, like that of all the genus, 
but is seldom of sufficient size to be of use. 
SPECIES-I.—PYRUS ARIA. Zook. 4 
Puates CCCCLXXXTI. CCCOLXXXIII. CCCCLXXXIV. COCCLEXXV.. 
Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 141. Benth. Wandbook Brit, Fl. p. -203. 
4 ee ees. 
