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4. P. aucuparia (Fowler's Service, Mountain Ash, Quicken, or 

 Rowan Tree). Leaves pinnate, serrated ; flowers in corymbs ; fruit 

 nearly round. One of the most elegant of British trees, conspicuous 

 in the flowering season by its delicate green foliage and large corymbs 

 of small white flowers, and in autumn by its clusters of berry-like 

 pomes, which are greedily eaten by birds, and often used as a lure 

 by the bird-catcher or fowler auceps. Mountainous woods. 

 Fl. May. Tree. 



Pyrus Aria [White Beam Tree) 



Pyrus Aucuparia (Fowler's Service Tree) 



5. P. Aria (White Beam Tree). 

 Leaves egg-shaped, deeply and irregu- 

 larly serrated, white below ; flowers 

 in corymbs ; fruit nearly round. A 

 small tree, well distinguished by its 

 very large leaves, which are remark- 

 ably white and silky beneath, es- 

 pecially when beginning to expand. 

 Woods, especially in chalky or lime- 

 stone soils. Fl. June. Tree. 



14. Mespilus (Medlar) 



1. M. Germanica (Common Med- 

 lar). A tree well known in a culti- 

 vated state, and although found 

 apparently wild in the south of 

 England, it is probably not a true 



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Mespilus Germanica 

 (Common Medlar) 



