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PYRUS TORMINALIS (Wild Service Tree). 



3. P. tormindlis (Wild Service Tree). Leaves egg- 

 shaped, with several deep, sharp lobes ; flowers in 

 corymbs. Woods and hedges in the south of England. 

 A small tree, with leaves shaped somewhat like those 

 of the Hawthorn, but larger, and white flowers, which 

 are succeeded by brownish, spotted, berry-like fruit. 

 Fl. May. Tree. 



4. P. aucupdria (Fowlers' Service, Mountain Ash, 

 Quicken, or Eowan Tree). Leaves pinnate, serrated; 



flowers in corymbs ; fruit nearly round. Mountainous 

 woods. One of the most elegant of British trees, con- 

 spicuous in the flowering season by its delicate green 

 foliage, and large corymbs of blossom, and in autumn by 

 its clusters of scarlet berry-like pomes, which are greedily 



