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THE QUICKEN TREE. 



SORBUS AUCUPARIA.- P/. 10. 



Fritftifcation. Flowers with five petals.; 

 about twenty chives ; and three poin- 

 tals : fiiccecded by a round berry with 

 three feeds. 



Specific cbaraler* Leaves winged ; feven 

 or eight pair of fmall ones ; fpear- 

 fhaped, ferrate.d, with an odd one at 

 the end. Flowers white, in large 

 bunches. Berries foft, red. 



THIS tree is better known by the name 

 of the Mountain AJb\ and in the north of 

 England by that of the Rowan-Tree. It is 

 properly a fpecies of the fervice or forb. 

 In the fouthern counties it is generally re- 

 garded as a fhrub or underwood ; but in 

 the north, where it is permitted to grow at 



ple^fure, 



