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,* - Vild Apple -tree. Grab-tree. Leaves simple, ser- 



a simple sessile umbel. A small tree, with 



Alar branches : flowers white, tinged with rose- 

 k the original of all the varieties of the apple : the 

 lar, yellowish, tinged with red, acid and harsh. 

 y : grows in woods and hedges : common. Eng. Bot. 

 9. Eng.Fl.\o\. ii. p. 363. 739. 

 jiindlis. Wild Service-tree. Leaves simple, somewhat 

 heart ^d, serrate, seven-lobed ; flower-stalks branched, corym- 

 bose, A tree, with white flowers, in large terminal, downy pa- 

 nicles : fruit brown, acid. Flowers in April and May : grows in 

 woods and hedges, in the south of England : frequent. Eng. Bot. 

 vol. v. pi. 298 : Cratcegus torminalis. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 363. 740. 



4. P. domestica. True Service-tree. Leaves pinnate, with uniform 

 leaflets, downy beneath, and serrated towards the end ; flowers 

 panicled ; fruit inversely egg-shaped. A large tree, with cream- 

 coloured flowers : fruit reddish, spotted, austere. Flowers in May : 

 grows in mountainous woods in England : very rare. Eng. Bot. 

 vol. v. pi. 350. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 364. 741. 



5. P. Aucupdria. Mountain Ash, Quicken, or Roan- tree. Leaves 

 pinnate, with uniform, serrate, smooth leaflets ; styles about three ; 

 fruit globular. A beautiful tree, with smooth branches : pani- 

 cles corymbose, with downy stalks : flowers numerous, white : 

 fruit scarlet, acid, and austere. The fruit is eaten by several spe- 

 cies of small birds, especially of the thrush kind. A spirit has 

 been distilled from them. Flowers in May and June : grows in 

 mountainous woods : common. Eng. Bot. vol. v. pi. 337 : Sorbus 

 aucupdria. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 36-5. A variety with deeply pinna- 

 tifid leaves is the P. pinnatifida. Eng. Bot. vol. xxxiii. pi. 2331. 



742. 



6. P. A'ria. White-beam. Leaves simple, elliptical, cut, ser- 

 rate, transversely furrowed, downy beneath ; flowers corymbose ; 



styles about two. A tree of moderate size, with smooth branches, 



the younger white and downy : flowers white, with downy stalks : 

 fruit globular, scarlet, mealy, astringent. Flowers in May : grows 

 in mountainous woods, and the fissures of rocks : not common. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. xxvi. pi. 1858. Eng. Fl vol. ii. p. 366. 743. 



4. SPIKJE'A. MEADOW-SWEET. 



Calyx inferior, of one leaf, with five acute, permanent, mar- 

 ginal segments. Petals five, roundish, or oblong. Filaments 

 hair-like, nearly as long as the corolla ; anthers roundish, two- 

 lobed. Germens five or more, superior, egg-shaped, or oblong, 

 compressed. Styles, one terminating each germen ; stigmas 

 obtuse, spreading. Capsules as many as the germens, oblong, 

 pointed, compressed, two-valved, one-celled. Seeds few, small, 

 oblong. Named, speireia, of Theophrastus. 249. 



1. S. salicifolia. Willoio -leaved Spiraa. Leaves between ellip- 

 tical and lance-shaped, unequally serrate, smooth ; clusters ter- 

 minal, compound. A shrub about four feet high, with smooth 



straight stems and branches : flowers pink, small, numerous, in 

 terminal clusters : styles five. Flowers in July : grows in moist 

 mountainous situations, but never truly wild : rare. Eng. Bot. vol. 

 xxi. pi. 1468. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 368, 744. 



