PI. ex. cal. 51. POMACEiE. * 34^5. Pyrus. 563 



Leaves slightly wrinkled, unequally serrate, mostly re- 

 verse ovate, oval. — Fruit excellent, either raw or dressed ; 

 juice fermented yields cider, a good cooling drink. 



b. Corolla white ; styles free at lottom ; pome top-shape, 

 umhillcated at the top. 



2. Pynts communis. Common pear. 

 Leaves ovate, serrated ; peduncles corymbose. 



Pyraster seu Pyrus communis, Raii St/n. 452, 1. 

 Pyrus sylvestris, Ger.em. 1458. 

 Pyrus communis, Lin. S. P. 686. 

 Pyrus Achras, Gartner Fr. et Sem. 2, 44. 

 Wild pear-tree. Choke pear. Iron pear. 



Woods and hedges ; arborescent ; April. 



Tree upright ; branches dependent, spinous ; leaves blunt, 

 when young covered with a deciduous down ; stipules linear; 

 corymlus villous. — Wood light, smooth, compact, easily cut 

 and turned ; fruit austere. 



^. inermis. Branches without spines. 



Pyrus sativa, Raii Syn. 452, 1 ; Ger. em. 1455. 



Cultivated in numerous varieties. 



Fruit sweet, nutritive; juice of the fruit fermented forms 

 perry, which comes nearer the taste of grape wine than 

 cider does, and is mostly used to mix with wines. 



c. Sorbus. Leaves pinnate, styles 3. 



3. Pyrus aucuparia. Fowling pear. 

 Leaves pinnate, leaflets oblong, slightly petioled, equally 



serrated, bald on both sides, when young downy beneath ; 

 flowers corymbose ; styles mostly 3. 



Sorbus sylvestris foliis domesticEe similis, Raii Syn, 452,2. 



Sorbus sylvestris, sive Fraxinus bubula, Ger. em. 1473. 



Ornus, sive Fraxinus sylvestris, Park. 1419. 



Sorbus aucuparia, Lin. S. P. GS3. 



Mespilus aucuparia, Scopoli Cam. 598, 



Pyrus aucuparia, Gcertner Fr. et Sem. 2, 45. 



Quicken tree. Wild ask. Wild service. Quickheam tree. Rom tree. 



Mountainous woods, and hedges ; arborescent ; May. 



Leaves pinnate with a terminal leaflet, stipuled ; corym- 

 lus terminal, much branched; pome the size of a pea, 

 scarlet, acid ; seeds 2 in each cell. — Wood solid, soft, tough, 

 used to prevent witchcraft and enchantment by a piece being 

 carried about a person, or by small cattle being driven 

 through a hoop made of it; berries dried and powdered 



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