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to confirm this view, that the former tr. appears to extend much 
further south than the latter, which certainly is totally wanting, 
either wild or cultivated, in both the Madeiran and Canarian 
Archipelagos, as, from Brotero’s Flora Lusit., it also seems to be 
in Portugal. Whether the nearly sessile fr. of the former, con- 
trasted with the long-stalked fr. of the wild Crab (P. acerba DC.) 
and certain garden Apples (e. g. the Golden Pippin) possibly 
derived from it, might not also, in addition to the lanuginose 
yoimg leaves and germens, indicate a specific difference in the 
original stocks, is a further question. There is certainly an 
appreciable difference in the mode of growth or ramification, a< 
well as in the habit of the two plants. 
3. P. Aucuparia (L.). Mountain Ash or Rowan-tree. 
L. pinnate, lfts. serrate nearly smooth ; buds, young 1., and 
shoots downy, hoary ; fl. in broad compound corymbs or corym- 
bose panicles ; fr. globose. — Gaertn. Fruct. 45, t. 87 ; Hook. Fl. 
Sc. i. 151 ; Sm. E. Fl. ii. 364 ; DC. ii. 637 ; Hook. Br. Fl. 110 ; 
Bab. 114. Sorbus Aucuparia L., Brot. ii. 298 ; EB. t. 337 ; Koch 
262. 
/ 3 . Maderensis ; shrubby low bushy leafy ; 1. short, lfts. often 
subobtuse ; pan. short subsessile buried in the 1. erect in fl. and 
fr. ; fl. fragrant. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 3, rrr. In close thickets 
of Vaccinium at a height of 5500 ft. from 500 to 100 yards below 
the Icehouse of the Pico do Areeiro, on the left-hand of the 
road or path where it passes along the N. side or base of the 
last conical peak 500 yards to the S.E. of the Icehouse, and 
down the last little valley crossed immediately before arriving 
at the same ; Sept. 1838, June 1844, about 20 tr. or bushes. 
Serra de S ta Anna towards Pico Ruivo, Sr. J. M. Moniz, 1855. 
Fl. June ; fr. Sept. — Rather a shrub than tr., with numerous 
erect straight st. or suckers from the rootstock forming a thick 
bush, and not rising above 6-8 ft. in height, though the main 
st. are often as thick as the arm or leg. L. scarcely more than 
3 or 4 in. long. Lfts. in 6 or 7 pairs with an odd one, oblong, 
often rather obtuse, about 1 in. long and ^ in. broad, somewhat 
stiff or rigid, evenly serrate, shining dark gr. above, paler and 
slightly pubescent on the midrib beneath, the main and partial 
1. -stalks being also, with the racliis (which is furnished with a 
gland at each pair of lfts.), slightly downy. Buds, ends of 
young shoots, and 1. beneath greyish-downy, the latter not 
cottony beneath. Fl. pure white with a delightful fragrance as 
agreeable and powerful as that of the common Hawthorn (Cra- 
tcegus Oxyacantha L.), in dense many-fld. short-stalked large 
ample terminal corymbose panicles. Branches of corymb, pedic. 
and cal. downy. Pet. concave. Stain, incurved. Styles very 
