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POMACE^E. X. PYRUS. 



Sound, and other parts of the north-west coast of America. 

 Petals roundish, white. Pome small, hardly half an inch long, 

 subglobose, red or yellow. The wood is employed for making 

 wedges, and is so hard as to be susceptible of a fine polish. 

 The fruit is used as an article of food, and is called in the lan- 

 ^uae of the Chenook tribe of Indians Pom-itch. 



/.'/'((.r-side Wild Service-tree. Fl. Ap. May. Tree 15 to 20 ft. 



SECT. V. ERIOI.OBUS (from tpiov, erion, wool, and Xo/3oe, lobos, 

 ;< lobe ; in reference to the woolly lobes of the calyx). D. C. 

 prod. 2. p. 636. Petals spreading, flat, somewhat unguiculate, 

 rather tridentate at the apex. Styles 5, elongated, rather con- 

 nected, very hairy at the base. Pome globose, glabrous, 

 crowned by the calycine lobes, which are clothed with tomentum. 



37 P. TRILOBA'TA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 636.) leaves palmate- 

 lobed, glabrous ; middle lobe 3-lobed, lateral ones usually 2- 

 lobed ; lobules serrated. Pj . H. Native of Mount Lebanon. 

 Crata'gus trilobata, Labill. dec. 4. p. 15. t. 10. Poir. suppl. 1. 

 ]>. 291. Flowers white. 



Three-lobed-\eaved Service-tree. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1810. 

 Tree 20 feet. 



SECT. VI. SORBUS (from the Celtic sormel, composed of sor, 

 wild, and mel, an apple; wild apple). Lin. gen. no. 623. Petals 

 spreading, flat or concave. Styles 2-5. Pome globose or tur- 

 binate. Leaves impari-pinnate. Flowers corymbose ; peduncles 

 branched. 



38 P. AURICULA V TA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 636.) leaves of 3 pairs 

 of leaflets, hairy beneath, the lower 2 or 4 leaflets distinct, but 

 the ultimate ones are joined into one large, ovate, crenated leaf- 

 let. Jj . H. Native of Egypt. Sorbus auriculata, Pers. ench. 

 2. p. 39. Corymb compact. Flowers white. Perhaps only a 

 variety of Surbits pinnatifida. 



Auricled-\eaved Service-tree or Mountain-ash. Fl. May. Clt. 

 1 800. Tree 20 to 30 feet. 



39 P. PINNATI'FIDA (Ehrh. beitr. 6. p. 93. Smith, engl. bot. 

 2331.) leaves deeply pinnatifid or half pinnate, clothed with 

 hoary down beneath, as well as the petioles and peduncles ; styles 

 about 3. Tj . H. Native of Gothland and Thuringia, in mountain 

 woods. In the Western Isles of Scotland on the mountains, 

 particularly in rocky situations on Cairn na Callich, and other 

 mountains at the north end of the Isle of Arran. P. hybrida, 

 Smith, fl. brit. p. 534. but not of Willd. spec. 2. p. 1022. Sor- 

 bus hybrida, Lin. spec. p. 684. Lin. fil. fasc. 11. t. 6. Fl. dan. 

 t. 301. Crataegus A'ria y Fennica, Lin. spec. ed. 2. p. 167. 

 Flowers cymose, cream-coloured. Pome globose, red. This 

 species is an intermediate plant between P. aucuparia and P. 

 //Via. 



far. /3, arbuscula (Poir. suppl. 5. p. 164. under Sorbus,) dwarf; 

 leaflets nearly glabrous, obtuse, outer ones usually confluent, 

 fj . H. Native of Germany. This is a variety either of P. 

 pinnatifda or P. aucuparia. 



Pinnatifid-leaved Service-tree or Mountain-ash. Fl. May. 

 Scotland. Tree 20 to 30 feet. 



40 P. MICROCA'RPA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 636.) leaves pinnate, 

 glabrous, as well as the petioles ; leaflets acuminated, unequally 

 and deeply serrated, the serratures ending in a setaceous mu- 

 crone ; porrie globose, red. ^ . H. Native of North America, 

 from Carolina to New York. Sorbus aucup&ria a, Michx. fl. 

 bor. amer. 2. p. 291. Sorbus micrantha, Dum. Cours. ed. 2. 

 vol. 5. p. 464. Sorbus microcarpa, Pursh. fl. amer. sept. 1. p. 

 341. Flowers whitish. 



Small-fruited Mountain-ash. Fl. May, June. Tree 12 ft. 



41 P. SAMBUCIFOLIA (Cham, in Linnaea. 2. p. 36.) leaves with 

 5 pairs of ovate, lanceolate, sharply serrated, acuminated leaflets, 

 which are pilose on the nerves and margins, and bearded at the 



apex ; stipulas clothed with rufous villi. fj . H. Native of 

 Kamtschatka. 



Elder-leaved Mountain-ash. Shrub. 



42 P. AUCUPA'RIA (Gsertn. fruct. 2. p. 45. t. 87.) leaves pin- 

 nate, downy beneath when young ; leaflets uniform, serrated, 

 glabrous; buds and peduncles downy ; pomes globose. Tj . H. 

 Native of Europe and Siberia, in mountains, woods, and hedges ; 

 plentiful in some parts of Britain. Sorbus aucuparia, Lin. spec. 

 683. Crantz. aust. 2. p. 49. t. 1. f. 4. Smith, engl. bot. t. 337. 

 Mill. fig. t. 43. Fl. dan. 1034. Mespilus aucuparia, All. 

 Flowers white, numerous, with a light almond-like scent ; petals 

 concave. Fruit small, globose, scarlet, very juicy, sour, and 

 bitter ; they are eaten in some parts of Scotland and Wales, and 

 afford an agreeable fermented liquor, and by distillation a strong 

 spirit ; soaked in water to extract some of its bitterness, and 

 then boiled with sugar, makes a kind of jelly, which is tolerably 

 flavoured. Birds of the thrush kind devour them with avidity, 

 and our mountain-ash trees planted for ornament in most parts 

 of England are thus unfortunately stripped early in autumn of 

 their produce. The mountain-ash in profitable planting is 

 chiefly valuable as a nurse tree, growing very fast when young, 

 and enduring the most severe exposure. The timber is used 

 by wheel-wrights, and for other common country purposes ; the 

 bark is used by tanners, and the berries afford a dye. As an 

 undergrowth it affords tolerable poles and hoops. It will grow 

 in any soil, dry or wet, and as to situation, it is found on the sea 

 shore, and near the tops of the highest mountains. It seems to 

 thrive best on the sides of moist rocky dells and dingles. In the 

 days of superstition the mountain-ash was considered as an ob- 

 ject of great veneration. It is even to be found at this day 

 growing in the neighbourhood of Druidical circles of stones in 

 Scotland. The roddon tree was formerly in Scotland especially 

 famous as a protection against charms and witchcraft. The tree 

 is called in Scotland rhodon or roddon tree, roan tree, and rantry. 

 In England mountain-ash, quick-bean, milchen or nhitten. In 

 Germany the fowlers' bait-springs or nooses of hair, are suspended 

 in the woods, with these berries attached to them to entice the 

 red-wings and field-fares, whence the specific name aucuparia. 



Forvlers' or Common Mountain-ash or Roan-tree. Fl. May. 

 Britain. Tree 20 to 40 feet. 



43 P. AMERICA'NA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 637.) leaves pinnate ; 

 leaflets oblong, acute, almost equally serrated, at length quite 

 glabrous ; pomes globose (purple, Pursh ; fulvous, Torrey). 

 lj . H. Native of North America, in Canada and throughout 

 the woody country ; Newfoundland ; on the north-west coast, and 

 in the subalpine prairies of the high mountains. Wats. dend. 

 brit. t. 54. Flowers white. 



American Mountain-ash. Fl. May. Clt. 1782. Tr. 15 to 20 ft. 



44 P. FOLIOI.OSA (Wall. cat. 677. pi. asiat. rar. 2. p. 81. 

 t. 189.) leaves pinnate, with 7-8 pairs of elliptic-lanceolate, mu- 

 cronate leaflets, which are serrated at the apex, pubescent be- 

 neath ; cymes branched, terminal, pubescent. Tj . H. Native 

 of Nipaul. Flowers white. Pome small, obovate-roundish, 

 red. 



Leafy Mountain-ash. Tree 20 feet. 



45 P. URSI'NA (Wall. cat. 675.) leaves pinnate, with nume- 

 rous pairs of leaflets ; leaflets lanceolate, blunt at both ends, 

 mucronate at the apex and cuspidately serrated, rusty beneath ; 

 corymbs, branches, rachis, and nerves of leaves clothed with 

 rusty villi. Tj . H. Native of Nipaul, Kamaon, and Gosaings- 

 than. Pomes globular, red, about the size of those of the com- 

 mon mountain-ash. 



Badger's Mountain-ash. Tree. 



46 P. DOME'STICA (Smith, engl. bot. t. 350.) leaves pinnate ; 

 leaflets uniform, serrated towards the points, clothed with deci- 

 duous cottony down beneath ; buds glabrous, clammy, acumi- 



