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for their whiteness, particularly underneath ; and in autumn, before they 

 drop off, for their fine yellow colour. Judging from the leaves of this tree, 

 we should say that it is the same as P. crenata D. Don (No. 10. in p. 890.) ; 

 but, as the fruit (which we have never seen) of P. crenata ought, from the 

 section in which it is placed, to be pear-shaped, and as the fruit of P. ne- 

 palensis, which is produced in abundance on a tree at Messrs. Loddiges, is 

 round, they may be distinct. So striking a tree, and one of such free 

 growth, ought not to be wanting in any collection. The two finest speci- 

 mens we know of this tree, in the neighbourhood of London, arc at Messrs. 

 Loddiges. 



App. i. Additional Species qfPgrus, belonging to the Section 



A'ria. 



P. kamaondnsis Wall. Cat, No. 678., Don's Mill., 2. p. 647., is a tree growing to the height of 20ft. 

 or 30 ft, a native of Kamaon and Sirmore, with oblong pinnatihdly-lobed, and serrated leaves, clothed 

 with white down beneath. The fruit is pear-shaped, red, and about thesize of a common medlar. 



P. lanhta D. Don {Prod. Fl. Nepal, p. 237. ; Dec. Prod., ii. p. 634. ; and G. Don's Mill., ii. p. 622.) has 

 broadly elliptic, doubly serrated leaves, woolly beneath ; and is probably only a variety of P. vestita. 



§ iv. Tormindria Dec. 



Sect. Char., fyc. Petals spreading, flat, having short claws. Styles 2 — 5, 

 connected, glabrous. Pome scarcely at all juicy, top-shaped at the base 

 truncate at the tip ; the sepals deciduous. Leaves angled with lobes ; in 

 the adult state glabrous. Flowers in corymbs. The peduncles branched. 

 (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 636.) Trees of the same general character, in regard 

 to habit and constitution, as P. A x ria. 



¥ 24. P. tormina v lis Ehrh. The griping-fruited Service Tree. 



Identification. Ehrh. Beitr., 6. p. 92. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 636. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 647. 



Synonymes. Crataegus torminalis Lin. Sp., 681., Smith Eng. Bot., t 298., Fl. Dan., t 798., Jacq. 



Fl. Austr., t.443. ; Sorbus torminalis Cranlz Austr., p. 85. ; the Maple-leaved ServiceTree j Ali- 



sier des Bois, Fr. ; Elzbear Baum, Ger. 

 Engravings. Jacq. Fl. Austr., t 443. ; and our plate in Vol. II. 



Spec. Char. Leaves cordate-ovate, feather-nerved, pinnatifidly lobed ; when 

 young, slightly downy beneath ; when adult, glabrous ; the lobes acumi- 

 nate and serrated, the lowest divaricate. Seeds cartilaginous. {Dec. Prod., 

 ii. p. 636.) 



Description, eye. A tree, growing to the height of 40 ft. or 50 {t., with a 

 large trunk, spreading at the top into many branches, and forming a large head. 

 The young branches are covered with a purplish bark, marked with white 

 spots. The leaves, which are on long footstalks, are cut into many acute 

 angles, like those of some species of maple. They are nearly 4 in. long, and 

 3 in. broad in the middle, bright green above, and slightly woolly underneath. 

 The flowers are produced in large bunches at the end of the branches ; and 

 they are succeeded by roundish compressed fruit, not unlike common haws, 

 but larger, and of a brown colour when ripe. The tree is of slow growth, 

 and in this respect, and most others, it resembles P. A x ria; but it is less 

 hardy. 



Geography, History, c?c. The griping, or common wild, service tree is a 

 native of various parts of Europe, from Germany to the Mediterranean, and 

 of the south of Russia, and Western Asia. It is found in woods and hedges 

 in the middle and south of England, but not in Scotland or in Ireland. It 

 generally grows in strong clayey soils. Miller, in 1752, says that " it was 

 formerly very abundant in Cane Wood, near Hampstead." The tree, it is 

 believed, was known to the Greeks (see p. 17.), and is the one mentioned 

 by Pliny as Morbus torminalis ; though this name may possibly have been 

 applied by him to the true service (Morbus domestica). It is figured by Gerard, 

 who says very little of the tree, but mentions the fruit as cold and binding. 

 One of the finest specimens in England is at Arley Hall, near Bewdley, for 

 a drawing of which we are indebted to the Earl of Mount Norris, of which 



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