324 APPLE: SERVICE-TREE, ETC. 



ovate or oblong, red or pink inside, white outside. Anthers 

 yellow. Styles fused half-way. Fruit depressed globoid, 

 indented at base and apex, on short stalks. Chambers 

 acute externally. Cultivated varieties are often barren 

 to their own pollen. 



Leaves not involute but condiiplicate. 

 Flowers smaller and more numerous, 

 10 15 mm. in diameter; in compoimd 

 corymhoid cymes. Pollen like that of 

 Crattegus, hut smaller. Fruits small 

 and more or less berry -like, 5 15 mm. 

 in diameter. 



% Carpel - walls cartilaginous. Fruit 

 olive-brown, dotted, oblong. Leaves 

 . pinnately lobed. 



Pyrustorminalis, Ehr. Service-tree (Fig. 132). Small 

 tree. 



Flowers in complex umbellate cymes ; stalks and 

 calyx pubescent ; petals and anthers white. Calyx -tube 

 hemispherical, enclosing the free styles : calyx-teeth short, 

 triangular, at length connivent. Fruit small, ovoid, brown, 

 berry-like ; chamber- walls thin. 



JtJf Carpel -ivalls papery. Fruits red, 

 globoid and berry -like. 



-H Leaves simple. 



Pyrus Aria, Ehr. Beam Tree, White Beam (Fig. 133). 

 Small tree. 



Flowers rather large, in complex umbellate cymes ; 

 stalks and calyx white-tomentose; bracts linear, glabrous, 

 scarious. Petals and anthers white, the former spreading. 

 Fruit sub-globose, white-tomentose, especially when young, 

 passing to scarlet, mealy. 



