﻿Evelyn's Silva, p. 181, with a plate. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 156. — 1’urt. Midi. F1‘ 

 v. i. p.235. — Sorbus torminalis, Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 1471. — Burnett’s Outl’ 

 of Bot. p C98. — Mespilus Apii folio sylvestris non spinosa, sue Sorbus tormi- 

 nalis, Ray’s Syn. p. 453. 



Locai.itifs. — In woods and hedges; chiefly in the Midland and Southern 

 counties. — Oxfordsh. Woods at Stanton St. John’s ; Stokenchurch ; and near 

 Ashford Mills : Dr . Sibtbohp. In woods and hedges on the right-hand side of 

 the road going from Blenheim Park to Stonesfield: July 30, 1831, W. B. — 

 Berks , In Bagley Wood, nearly opposite to the village of Kenington: 1824, 

 W. B. — Cambridgesh. Gransden: Rev. R. Relfian. — Cornwall: Hare Down 

 near Bodmin : Rev. J. Pikf. Jones. — Devon ; Hedges and woods at llsington ; 

 HolneChace: Rev. A. Neck. — Dorsetsh. Woods about Lytchet; Charborough ; 

 and Henbury. Broad Wood near Blandford, and many others: Dr. Pulteney. 

 — Essex; Plentiful in hedges between Blackmore and Ingatestone: Rev. J. 

 Davies. On Epping Forest, and elsewhere in woods and hedges : Mr. E. Fon- 

 steii , jun — Herefordsh. About the centre of the county : Duncvmb. — Herts ; 

 Near Broxted Park : Mr. E. Fobster. — Lancash. On the rocks at Knot’s-hole, 

 near Liverpool, in a situation quite exposed to the salt water, and where it must 

 occasionally be washed by the spray of the sea: Dr. Bostock. — Middlesex; 

 Bishop’s and Cane Woods, Hampstead: Dr. Martyn. — Norfolk ; Ditching- 

 ham Bath Hills: Mr. Woodward. — Northamptonsh. Cliff W oods, and Woods 

 at Oundle : Dr. Martyn. — Somersetsh. Hinton Wood, near Bath: Dr. Davis. 

 — Staffordsh. Pendeford, in hedges: Mr. Pitt. — Suffolk; Darsham : Mr. 

 Davy. — Surrey; Between London and Dulwich : Mr.S. Harris. — Warwick- 

 shiro ; On the side of the footpath to Mr. Petford’s, Alcester Park: Mr. 

 Purton, — Worcester sh. Woods on the Malvern Hills: Mr. Edwin Lees, in 

 Loud. Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. iii. p. 161. — W ALES. Denbig/ish. Very common 

 aboul Gain: Mr. Griffith — Glamorgansh. Sides of Neath Walley: Mr. 

 Dim wyn. Woods about Penrice : Dr. Turton. 



A Tree. — Flowers in April and May. 



A tree of slow growth, but often of considerable size, rising to 

 the height of 40 or 50 feet, with a large trunk, spreading at the top 

 into many branches, so as to form a large head. The young 

 branches are covered with a purplish bark, marked with white 

 spots. Leaves alternate, deciduous, on long stalks, broad, smooth, 

 firm, dark-green, veiny, sharply serrated, with 7, sometimes only 5, 

 acute lobes, of which the lower pair are broadest and most distant. 

 Stipulas none. Flowers white, numerous, in large, terminal, corym- 

 bose, downy panicles. Styles from 3 to 5, even in flowers of the 

 same panicle. Fruit roundish, compressed, shaped somewhat like 

 common Haws, but larger, ripening in Autumn, when they are of a 

 brown colour, and dotted ; their cells are of the same number as 

 the styles. 



“ The fruit of the Service partakes of the quality of the Medlar, 

 both in the green and in the ripe state. It is gathered in bunches, 

 and put into, or hung on, a cleft stick of about a yard long, which 

 becomes a mass of berries ; in this state the fruit is sold by the 

 country people, and then hung up in a garden to receive the damp 

 air of the night, which causes it to undergo a kind of putrefactive 

 fermentation, and in this soft state it is eaten, and has a more 

 agreeable acid than the Medlar. The wood of this tree is of a fine 

 hard grain, and very white ; it is esteemed by the Turner and 

 Carver, as well as for the making of gun-stocks. It is used by 

 Mill-wrights for cogs to wheels, &c. in preference to any other 

 wood : it is also a very durable yvood for buildings that are ex- 

 posed to a northern aspect.” See Phillips’ Pomarium Brilan- 

 vicum, (2nd ed.) p. 340. 



