ROSACE.TC. 



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year. It coverpd an acre of ground, auil would have extendecl much further had Nature 

 been left to herself. It is said to have been iu its greatest jierfectiou about 177(3, and 

 in 183G was still standing. 



Section II.— MALUS. Tournef. 



Styles combined at the base, fruit sub-globose, umbilicate at the 

 base. 



SPECIES VI.— P YRUS MALUS. Linn, 

 Plates CCCCLXXXIX. CCCCXC. 

 Leaves on short or moderately long petioles, oval or roundish- 

 oval, generally acuminate or cuspidate, rather finely and vmequally 

 serrate or crenate-serrate. Flowers in simple umbels. Styles 

 united at the base. Fruit sub-globose, umbilicate at the base. 



Sub-Species I.— Pyrus acerba. D. 0. 



Plate CCCCLXXXIX. 



Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 572. 



Malus acerba, " Meral." Bureau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. p. 236. 



P. Malus, var. o, acerba, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 117. 



P. Malus, var. a, sylvestris, Leighton, Fl. Shrop. p. 527. 



P. Malus, var. a, glabra, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 261. 



P. Malus, var. a, acida, Wallr. Sched. Crit. p. 215. 



Young branches glabrous or finely pubescent. Leaves pubescent 

 on the veins when young, glabrous when old. Pedicels elongated, 

 slightly pubescent towards the summit. Calyx-tube sub-glabrous. 

 Fruit drooping, about as long as, or shorter than, its pedicel. 



In woods, thickets, and hedges. Not unfrequent, and generally 

 distributed, in the South and midland counties of England. I have 

 never seen it in Scotland. 



England, Scotland ? Ireland ? Tree. Early Summer. 



A small tree, or more frequently a large shrub. Leaves 1 to 2 

 inches long when mature, oval or roundish-oval, abruptly acuminate 

 or vei-y shortly cuspidate at the apex, only slightly downy when 

 young and becoming quite glabrous even beneath. Flowers rather 

 few, 1-| inch across, white within, red on the outside. Calyx-segments 

 woolly only on the inside. Fruit f to 1 inch in diameter, yellowish 

 when ripe, with a depression at the base into which the peduncle is 

 inserted. 



Common Crab-apple. 



French, Poirier Acerbe. 



As a picturesque tree, this is perhaps one of the most beautiful, and whether in 

 flower or fruit is equally pleiusing to the eye. The pretty red fruit is so exceedingly 



