324 APPLE: SERVICE-TREE, ETC. 



ovate or oblong, red or pink inside, white outside. Anthers 

 yellow. Styles fused half-way. Fruit depressed globoid, 

 indented at base and apex, on short stalks. Chambers 

 acute externally. Cultivated varieties are often barren 

 to their own pollen. 



Leaves not involute but conduplicate. 

 Flowers smaller and more numerous, 

 10 15 mm. in diameter; in compound 

 corymboid cymes. Pollen like that of 

 Cratsegus, but smaller. Fruits small 

 and more or less berry -like, 5 15 mm. 

 in diameter. 



Jf Carpel - walls cartilaginous. Fruit 

 olive-brown, dotted, oblong. Leaves 

 pinnately lobed. 



Pyrus torminalis, Ehr. Service-tree (Fig. 132). Small 

 tree. 



Flowers in complex umbellate cymes; stalks and 

 calyx pubescent ; petals and anthers white. Calyx-tube 

 hemispherical, enclosing the free styles : calyx-teeth short, 

 triangular, at length connivent. Fruit small, ovoid, brown, 

 berry-like ; chamber- walls thin. 



JtJt Carpel -walls papery. Fruits red, 

 globoid and berry-like. 



-f- Leaves simple. 



Pyrus Aria, Ehr. Beam Tree, White Beam (Fig. 133). 

 Small tree. 



Flowers rather large, in complex umbellate cymes ; 

 stalks and calyx white-tomentose ; bracts linear, glabrous, 

 scarious. Petals and anthers white, the former spreading. 

 Fruit sub-globose, white-tomentose, especially when young, 

 passing to scarlet, mealy. 



