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PYRUS MALUS (Crab Apple}. 



2. P. Mains (Crab Apple). Leaves simple, egg- 

 shaped, serrated, flowers in a sessile umbel ; styles com- 

 bined below ; fruit with a hollow beneath. Woods and 

 hedges. A small spreading tree, with thornless branches, 

 umbels of white flowers delicately shaded with pink, 

 and nearly round fruit, which is intensely acid. It was 

 formerly much used in making verjuice, and in the pre- 

 paration of pomatum, so called from pomum, an apple. 

 FL May. Tree. 



