By Thomas Bruges Floicer, Esq. 67 



Fruit, August, September. Area, 1. * 3. 4. 5. Sparingly distributed 

 throughout Wilts. 



South Dividon. 

 1. South-east District, "Amesbury," Dr. Southby. "Brickworth," 

 Mr. James Hussey. 



3. South-west District, Woods at Corsley and Longleat. " Ber- 

 wick St. John and Ashcombe," Mr. James Hussey. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Woods at Kingsdown, Box, and Colerne 

 Park. " Middle Pickwick near Corsham," Dr. Alexander Prior. 



5. North-east District, "Bottom of White Horse Down near 

 Marlborough," Mr. T. W. Jones. 



Usually a taller tree than the following. Leaves white cottony 

 below in all stages, ovate or oblong, doubly or unequally toothed, 

 loose, tapering, nearly entire. Styles two to three, hairy below. 

 Fruit roundish, pulpy when ripe, of an acidulous taste. 



3. P. torminalis, (Smith) Wild Service-tree,' or Sorb. The name 

 torminalis, signifies gripings, from the griping pains it produces in 

 the bowels, when eaten before the fruit has been touched by the 

 frost, after which it becomes more wholesome, Engl. Dot. t. 298. 



Locality. In woods and hedges, rare in the county. Tree Fl. 

 April, May. Fruit in September. Area, 1. * * 4. * 

 South Division. 

 1, South-east District, "Clarendon Woods near Salisbury," 

 Mr. W. H. Hatcher. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Haselbury Bottoms near Box. Draycote 

 Park, and in Cottles Wood, Atworth. " Ford," Dr. Alexander 

 Prior.^ 



1 The name Service, applied to tlie tree and its fruit, is probably derived from 

 Cerevisia, or Cervisia, a liquor prepared from grain (Cerealia) by the ancient 

 Gaids, and analagous to our beer, of which beverage a kind has been brewed 

 time out of mind from the berries of some tree of the present genus, called 

 Sorbus, by the ancients "quod ejus succum sorbere volent. The Welsh prepare 

 a similar drink at this day from the fruit of the Mountain Ash, called Sorbus 

 sylvestris by many of the older writers on plants. 



2 " Service-trees grow naturallv in Oreltwood, in the parish of Gretenham, 



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