ROSE FAMILY l6l 



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

 Fl. June. Perennial. 



5. P. intermedia (Broad-leaved White Beam). — A small tree 

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

 each side ; but with dark or reddish-brown fruit. — Occurs rarely, in 

 hilly woods. — Fl. May. Perennial. 



6. P. finnica with leaves pinnate at the base, deeply pinnatifid 

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

 the preceding species and the Rowan. — Arran in the Clyde. 

 Perennial. 



rus Aria {White Beam\ 



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

 serrate leaves, downy beneath, and a small pear-shaped fruit, did 

 occur in Wyre Forest, Worcestershire ; but was not indigenous. — 

 Fl. May. Perennial. 



8. P. Aucupdria (Rowan-tree, Mountain Ash, Fowlers' Ser- 

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

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

 glabrescent ; flowers 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 specific name, from the Latin auceps, a 

 fowler. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



