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CALYCIFLOR^ 



of these are rare and the characters of 

 others are difficult to discriminate, it 

 has been thought best to describe here 

 only tliose which are of common occur- 

 rence, or otherwise remarkable. 



13. Pyrus (Pear, Apple, Service, and 

 Mountain Ash) 



I. P. communis (Wild Pear). — Leaves 

 simple, egg-shaped, serrated ; flowers 

 white, in bunches on spurs of the pre- 

 vious year's formation ; fruit tapering 

 at the base. A small upright tree, often 

 bearing thorns at the extremities of its 

 branches. The seed-vessel, in a wild 

 state, is woody^ austere, and worthless, 



yet is the origin of the countless luscious 



varieties of our gardens and orchards. 



Woods and hedges. — Fl. April, May. 



Tree. 



2. P. mains (Crab Apple). — Leaves 

 simple, egg-shaped, serrated ; flowers in 

 a sessile umbel ; styles combined below ; 

 fruit hollow beneath. A small, spreading 

 tree, with thornless branches, umbels of 

 white flowers delicately shaded with pink, 

 and nearly round fruit, which is intensely 

 acid. It was formerly much used in 

 making verjuice and ui the preparation of 

 pomatum, so called from pomum, an 

 apple. Woods and hedges. — Fl. May. 

 Tree. 



Pyrus Communis {Wild Pear) 





Pyrus Torminalis (Wild Service Tree) 



Pyrus Malus {Ci-ab Apple) 



3. P. torminalis (Wild Ser- 

 vice Tree). — Leaves egg- 

 shaped, with several deep, 

 sharp lobes ; flowers in 

 corymbs. A small tree, with 

 leaves shaped somewhat like 

 those of the Hawthorn, but 

 larger, and wilh white flowers, 

 which arc succeeded by brown- 

 ish, spotted, lierry-like fruit. 

 Woods and hedges in the south 

 Fl. May. Tree. 



of F.ngland, 



