136 ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Pyrus, 



Var. Fruit white, at Bampton. Bohart. in Ray. 



PYRUS. Pear,' Apple, Service. 



P. communis. Wild Pear-tree, Iron Pear. Leaves 

 simple, egg-shaped, saw-toothed. Flower-stalks corym- 

 bose. E. B. 1784. Pyrum strangulatorium majus. 

 G. E. 1457. 



Woods, hedges. Cheney Lane. Headington. Sb. 



Tree. April. 



Tall, handsome tree. Branches in the end curved downwards. 

 The l.-serratures disappear by culture. Ls. young ones fringed 

 with white. Stip. linear. Fl. large, white. Fruit inversely 

 egg-shaped, variable in flavour, astringent. Anth. pink. 

 Wood smooth, compact, for turning. 

 Its snow-white blossoms particularly handsome. As many as 



eighty varieties of this in Miller s Gard. Diet. Does not thrive 



well in moist soils (bottoms :) does not destroy the grass. Ls. dye 



yellow ; give a green to blued cloths. 



P. Malus. Wild Apple-tree. Crab-tree. Leaves 

 simple, saw-toothed. Flowers in a simple umbel. E. 

 B. 179. Malus sylvestris. G. E. 1461. 



Woods, hedges. 



Tree. April. 



Ls. roundish, oval. Fl. elegant, rose-coloured without, white 



within, large. Fruit globose, umbilicated, hard, mostly very 



acid. L.-serratures sometimes disappear by culture. 



In fl., few shrubs surpass this in beauty. The original of all our 

 varieties of the apple. Wood hard. Verjuice of the fruit for 

 sprains and scalds. Bark dyes wool yellow. As a stock on which 

 to engraft the better apples. From the verjuice, a grateful liquor 

 might probably be made, by a due mixture of sugar. 



For an account of the different apple, and pear-trees. See 

 "•' Knight's Pomona.'' 



P. tormindlis. Wild Service-tree. Leaves simple, 

 somewhat heart-shaped, saw-toothed, seven-lobed ; the 

 lower lobes spreading. Flower-stalks corymbose, 

 branched. Crataegus torminalis. Sb. 156. E. B. 

 298. Sorbus torminalis. G. E. 1471. Tragus, fig. 

 p. 1010. ! 



Woods, hedges.* Stanton St. John's. Stokenchurch. Woods 

 near Ashford Mills. Sb. (Bagley Wood. Bx.) 



Tree. April. 



Bark smooth,, ash-coloured. Branches when young, green. L&. 



^ Ang. Sax. 



