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Spec. Char., ^-c. 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 3. Intermediate, and perhaps a hybrid, be- 

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

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

 ' butifolia. Height 10 ft. 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. 



Varicti/. 



1 P. 5. 2 pendida Hort., iS'orbus hybrida pendula Lodd. Cat., P. spuria 

 ^ambucifolia 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- 

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



I 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 tli species and variety are very desirable small trees for their leaves, 

 Itheir flowers, and their fruit ; they are readily propagated by grafting on tb.e 

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



P. FOLioLo^sA Wall. The leafy Mountain Ash. 



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Identification. Wall. Cat. p. 677 

 Engravings. Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar., 2. t. 189 



Spec. Char., S^c. Leaves pinnate, 

 with 7 -8 pairs of elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate, mucronate leaflets, which 

 are serrated at the apex, pubes- 

 cent beneath. Cymes branched, 

 terminal, pubescent. (Do7i's 

 Mill.) A deciduous tree. Ne- 

 pal, on mountains. Height 15 ft. 

 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, 

 lias not yet been introduced, but 

 !t doubtless will soon be so. 



PI. Asiat. Rar., 2. p. SI. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 648. 

 and our fig. 795. 



P. hirchia Wall. Cat. p. G73., 

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

 ';itive of Nepal, with pinnate 

 aves, and numerous leaflets, 

 i-'ty beneath ; and with red fruit, 

 fout the size of that of the common mountain ash. 



foltolosa- 



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vii. Adenorachis Dec. 



i'f/. Char. Petals spreading, each with a claw, and a concave limb. Styles 

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



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^ - -. ^ wwic j^iuuuoc, i^eaves siiupie, uie miuriD Deanng glands on its 

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

 .1-lowers in branched corymbs. Deciduous shrubs, natives of North 

 lAiiienca ; growing to the height of 4 or 3 feet, and prolific in flowers, 

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

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



