112 FAMILIAR TREES 



P. interme'dia Ehrh., the P. scandi'ca Syme. 

 is the " Alisier du Nord " of the French, the " Schwe- 

 discher Mehlbaum " of Germany. It grows at altitudes 

 of 4,500 feet in the Alps and at 6,000 in the Pyrenees, 

 and extends northward to 70° N. lat. A small tree or 

 bush, its leaves are oblong, serrate, pinnatifid near the 

 base and white -beneath, and its fruit is scarlet, with a 

 pulpy yellow flesh. It occurs in the West of England, 

 in Wales, and in the island of Arran, where also is 

 found the form, designated P. feih'nica by the late 

 Professor Babington, with partly pinnate and grey- 

 webbed leaves and sweet-scented flowers, which is 

 almost certainly a hybrid between the White Beam 

 and the Mountain Ash, as it was thought to be by 

 Linnaeus, or perhaps we should say rather of P. inter- 

 media with P. Aucupa'ria, 



P. minima is an interesting shrub found in 1895 

 by the Rev. Augustin Ley in the mountains of 

 Breconshire, growing at an altitude of 1,600 feet. Its 

 leaves are pinnatifid, but narrower than those of 

 P intermedia, its flowers have the perfume of 

 Hawthorn, and its small globular fruit ripens by 

 the beginning of September to a bright coral red. 

 It appears most closely allied to P. intermedia. 



