XXVI. ROSA^CEJE I PY^RUS. 



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Spec. Char., tyc. Leaflets ovate, crenate; 3 pairs, with an odd one, which is 

 longer than the others : all are hairy beneath. Petiole gland-bearing 

 upon the upper side. Styles 5. Intermediate, and perhaps a hybrid, be- 

 tween P. aucuparia and P. orbutifolia. (Dec. Prod.) A low tree, with 

 rambling, slender, dark-coloured shoots, and fruit resembling that of P. ar- 

 butifolia. Height 10ft. to 20 ft. In cultivation in 1800. Flowers white 

 May. Fruit small, black ; ripe in September. Decaying leaves dark 

 purplish red. Naked young wood purplish. 



Variety. 



*t P. s. 2 pendula Hort., Sorbus hybrida pendula Lodd. Cat., P. spuria 

 sambucifolia Hort. Brit, (the plate of this variety in Arb. Brit., 1st 

 edit. vol. vi.) has pendulous shoots, and is a very distinct and 

 most interesting kind. There are fine low trees of it in the Hor- 

 ticultural Society's Garden ; and, if grafted 10 or 12 feet high, in- 

 stead of only 3 or 4 feet, as it is there, it would form one of the 

 most beautiful of pendulous trees. It is prolific in flowers, and 

 dark purple fruit ; and the leaves die off of an intensely dark pur- 

 plish red. Every hawthorn hedge might be adorned with this tree 

 by grafting. 



Both the species and variety are very desirable small trees for their leaves, 

 their flowers, and their fruit ; they are readily propagated by grafting on the 

 common thorn or mountain ash, and require the same soil as that species. 



*t 35. P. FOLIOLO V SA Wall. The leafy Mountain Ash. 



Identification. Wall. Cat. p. 677. ; PI. Asiat. Rar., 2. p. 81. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 648. 

 Engravings. Wall. PI. Asiat. Ran, 2. t. 189. ; and our fig. 795. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves pinnate, 

 w ith 7 -8 pairs of elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate, mucronate leaflets, which 

 are serrated at the apex, pubes- 

 cent beneath. Cymes branched, 

 terminal, pubescent. (Don's 

 Mill.) A deciduous tree. Ne- 

 pal, on mountains. Height 15ft. 

 to 20 ft. Introduced ?. Flowers 

 white; June. Pome small, obo- 

 vate roundish, red ; ripe Nov. 

 This very desirable and probably 

 quite hardy species, we believe, 

 has not yet bean introduced, but 

 it doubtless will soon be so. 



P. hircma Wall. Cat. p. 675., 

 and Don's Mill. ii. p. 648., is a 

 native of Nepal, with pinnate 

 leaves, and numerous leaflets, 

 rusty beneath ; and with red fruit, 

 about the size of that of the common mountain ash. 



vii. Adenorachis Dec. 



Sect. Char. Petals spreading, each with a claw, and a concave limb. Styles 

 2 5. Pome globose. Leaves simple, the midrib bearing glands on its 

 upper surface (which is the character expressed in the sectional name). 

 Flowers in branched corymbs. Deciduous shrubs, natives of North 

 America ; growing to the height of 4 or 5 feet, and prolific in flowers, 

 followed by red, dark purple, or black, fruit. They are all readily 

 propagated by division, by suckers, or by grafting on the common hawthorn. 



