158 BOTANICAL SYNOPSIS 



Sub-species P. Achras Bor. Leaves acute, slightly downy 

 beneath. Fruit rounded at the base. Vol. II., p. 131. 



Sub-species P. cordata Desv. Leaves cordate, nearly 

 smooth. Fruit small, globose. Devon and Cornwall. 

 Vol. II., p. 129. 



P. Malus L. Apple. Branches spreading, sometimes with 

 thorns. Leaves oblong, acuminate, serrate. Flowers in 

 sessile umbels, pink and white, one to one and a half inches in 

 diameter. Fruit an umbilicate pome, one inch or more in 

 diameter, red or yellow when ripe. May. Europe. Vol. II., 

 p. 33. 



P. Aucuparia Ehrhart. Rowan or Mountain Ash. Bark 

 smooth, silver-grey. Branches ascending. Leaves alternate, 

 pinnate, of thirteen to seventeen linear-oblong, acute, serrate 

 leaflets, each one to two inches long, pale beneath and downy 

 at first. Flowers cream-white, small, in corymbose cymes four 

 to six inches across. Fruit a small scarlet pome with yellow 

 flesh. May, June. Europe and Northern Asia. Vol. I., 

 p. 97. 



P. Aria Ehrhart. White Beam. Bark reddish brown. 

 Young shoots white with mealy down. Leaves elliptic, 

 irregularly serrate, snow-white beneath. Flowers small, 

 white, in loose corymbs. Fruit sub-globose, scarlet, dotted 

 with brown points, with orange flesh. May, June. Europe, 

 North Africa, North and West Asia. Vol. I., p. 105. 



P. fennica Bab. Leaves partly pinnate, grey- webbed 

 beneath. Probably a hybrid between P. Aucuparia and 

 P. intermedia. Arran. Vol. I., p. 112. 



P. intermedia Ehrh. Leaves pinnatifid at base, white 

 beneath. Fruit with yellow pulpy flesh. North-west Europe, 

 West of England, Wales, Arran. Vol. I., p. 112. 



P. rupicola Syme. Leaves entire at base, lobed at apex, 

 white beneath. Fruit smaller. Vol. I., p. 111. 



P. latifolia Syme. Leaves broad, lobed, grey beneath. 

 Flowers with sickly smell. Fruit reddish brown. North- 

 west Europe, Cornwall. Vol. I., p. 111. 



P. torminalis Ehrh. Service-tree. Bark smooth, grey. 

 Twigs reddish brown, polished. Leaves pinnately lobed, the 



