ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Spireea. 137 



alternate, veined like net-work, deciduous. Fl. numerous. 

 Cymose-panic. large, terminal. Fl.-stalks and cal. downy. Pet. 

 cream-coloured. Styles three, four, or five. Berries astringent, 

 greenish-brown, dotted, pleasant acid flavour, when frost-bitten : 

 occasionally sold in the market. 



* P. aiicupdria. Quicken-tree^ or Mountain Ash. 

 Roan-tree. Leaves winged ; leaflets uniform, saw- 

 toothed, smooth. Flowers corymbose. Styles about 

 three. Fruit globular. Sorbus aucuparia. E. B. 

 337. S. sylvestris, sive Fraxinus bubula. G. E. 

 1473. 



Woods. (Copse between Childswell Farm, and Wootten Heath. 

 Bx?) Warwickshire, not uncommon. Pn. 



Tree. May. 



Apples like ben-ies, scarlet, sour. Seeds two. 



A handsome tree, of slow growth, with a tough, close-grained, 



not very hard wood. The Roan-tree, a charm amongst Highlanders. 



P. 'Aria. White Beam-tree. White Wild Pear-tree. 



Leaves simple, elliptical, cut, saw-toothed, scored ; 



downy beneath. Flowers corymbose. Styles about 



two. E. B. 1858, Aria Theophrasti. G. E. 1327. 



bad fig. 

 Mountainous woods on a chalky soil.* Stokenchurch. Henley. 



Stanton St. John's. Sb. Streatley, Berks. Bx. 

 Tree. May. 

 Handsome, small tree. Branches, young ones, also the stalks, cal., 



and under side of Is., mealy white. Ls. stalked, alternate, acute, 



veins straight, sunk above. Fl.-corymh, large, terminal, white. 



Pet. longer than stam. Styles two, three, or four. Fruit scar 



let, globose, mealy, astringent; eatable when mellowed by 



frost. TVood hard. 



Called by the Welsh, a lemon-tree, whence some wise travellers 

 have recorded the growth of the tender lemon on the crags of 

 Wales ! Flourishes in gi-avel, or clay. 



SPIRtEA. Spirsea, Dropwort, Meadow-sweet. 



S. Filipendula.^ Common Dr. Leaves interruptedly 

 winged ; leaflets uniform, saw-toothed, smooth. Stem 

 herbaceous. Flowers cymose, with many styles. E. 

 B. 284. Filipendula. G. E. 1058. 



Open elevated pastures, on a gravelly, or chalky soil. Sm. Banks of 

 the Canal, going to Wolvercot. Burford Downs. Sb. Bulling- 

 don Green, &c. Bx. 



' From the root knobs hanging as it were from a thread. 



