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the calyx-lobes fall early, giving it a naked appearance. This 

 is also a native of Northern Asia. 



5. P. torminalis. Wild Service. A small indigenous tree. 

 Leaves glabrescent, ovate or cordate, more or less deeply lobed. 

 Flowers corymbose, small, white. Fruit globose or pear-shaped, 

 brown. 



6. P. Aria. White Beam Tree. A shrub or small tree, 

 very variable in foliage. Leaves lobed, pinnatifid or pinnate 

 at the base, with a dense flocculent down on the under surface. 

 Flowers in loose corymbs, small, white. Fruit spherical, half 

 an inch in diameter, red or scarlet. 



7. P. Aucuparia. Mountain Ash or Eowan Tree. An ele- 

 gant native tree of small dimensions. Leaves imparipinnate, 

 with about 7 or 9 oblong serrate leaflets. Flowers small, white, 

 in large terminal dense corymbs. Fruit small, globose, scarlet. 

 The scarlet berries of this tree, which are usually borne in 

 great abundance, render it highly attractive towards Autumn. 



8. P. domestica. True Service. Very much like the pre- 

 ceding, but the buds are smooth, the flowers panicled, and the 

 fruit larger and pear-shaped or obovate. 



P. Japonica (fig. 94), syn. 

 Cydonia or Choenomeles Japo- 

 nica. This is one of the most 

 ornamental of early-flowering 

 shrubs, its brilliant scarlet 

 flowers appearing in great profu- 

 sion towards the end of Winter, 

 before the leaves are developed. 

 It is also remarkable for the leafy 

 kidney-shaped stipules. Besides 

 the common variety, which is 

 perhaps the best, there is a white, 

 a flesh, a red bordered with 

 white, a semi-double, and several 

 other varieties. 



10. CRATJ3GUS. 

 Deciduous trees or shrubs, 

 often armed with sharp spines. 

 Leaves variable. Calyx-limb 



. , . -, Fig. 94. Pyrus Japonica. (J nat. size.) 



persistent. Fruit ovoid or 



spherical, with hard bony cells or stones. The species are 



