ROSE FAMILY 



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small, globose, coral-red, bitter.— Limestone rocks, Breconshire. — 

 Fl. June. Perennial. ^ 



5. P. iiilermhiia (liroad-leaved ^Vhite BeamV — A small tree 

 with leaves similar to those of the preceding,; with 5 — 9 veins on 

 each side ; but with dark or reddish-brown //7«y. — Occurs rarely, in 

 hilly ^^■oods, — Fl. May. Perennial. 



0. F.Jhviica with leaves pinnate at the base, deeply pinnatifid 

 at the apex, and grey-webbed beneath, may be a hybrid between 

 the ]ireceding species and the Kowan. — Arran in the Clyde. 

 Perennial. 



7.* P. domesliea (Service-tree). — A small tree with pinnate, 

 serrate leaves, downy beneath, and a small pear-shaped //7//V, did 

 occur in \\yre Forest, Worcestershire ; but was not indigenous — 

 Fl. May. Perennial. 



S. P. Aiuupdria (Rowan tree, Mountain Ash, Fowlers' Ser- 

 vice). — One of the most elegant of British tree.s, small, with smooth 

 roan or ash-grey bark ; leaves pinnate, of 13^^17 leaflets, serrate, 

 glabrescent ; floivers small, cream-white, in large, corymbose 

 cymes; fruits globose, scarlet, with yellow flesh, 2 — 4-chambered. 

 — Mountainous woods ; common. The fruit is eaten in northern 

 Europe, and is used as a lure by fowlers, whence it derives one of 

 its English names and its sjjecific name, from-the Latin auceps, a 

 fowler. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



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