PI. ex. cal. 
563 
57. POMACES. 345. Pyrus. 
Leaves slightly wrinkled, unequally serrate, mostly re- 
verse ovate, oval. — Fruit excellent, either raw or dressed ; 
juice fermented yields cider, a good cooling drink. 
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b. Corolla white ; styles free at hot tom ; pome top-shape, 
umhilicated at the top. 
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2. Pyrus communis. Common pear. 
Leaves ovate, serrated ; peduncles corymbose. 
Py raster seu Pyrus communis, Rail Syn. 452, 1. 
Pyrus sylvestris, Ger.em. 1458. 
Pyrus communis, Lin. S. P. 686. 
Pyrus Achras, Grertner Fr. et Sem. 2, 44. 
Wild pear-tree. Choke pear. Iron pear. 
Woods and hedges; arborescent; April. 
Tree upright ; branches dependent, spinous ; leaves blunt, 
when young covered with a deciduous down ; stipules linear; 
corymbus villous. — Wood light, smooth, compact, easily cut 
and turned ; fruit austere. 
inermis . Branches without spines. 
Pyrus sativa, Rail Syn. 452, 1 ; Ger. em. 1455. 
Cultivated in numerous varieties. 
Fruit sweet, nutritive; juice of the fruit fermented forms 
perry, which comes nearer the taste of grape wine than 
cider does, and is mostly used to mix with wines. 
c. Sorbus. Leaves pinnate , styles 3. 
3. Pyrus aucuparia. Fowling pear . 
Leaves pinnate, leaflets oblong, slightly petioled, equally 
serrated, bald on both sides, when young downy beneath ; 
flowers corymbose ; styles mostly 3. 
Sorbus sylvestris foliis domestic® similis, Rail Syn. 452,2. 
Sorbus sylvestris, sive Fraxinus bubula, Ger. em. 1473. 
Ornus, sive Fraxinus sylvestris. Park. 1419. 
Sorbus aucuparia, Lin . S. P. 6 S3. 
Mespilus aucuparia, Scopoli Cam. 598. 
Pyrus aucuparia, Gcertner Fr. et Sem. 2, 45. 
Quicken tree. Wild ash. Wild service. Quickheam tree. Ro in tree. 
Mountainous woods, and hedges; arborescent; May. 
Leaves pinnate with a terminal leaflet, stipuled ; cory ru- 
ins terminal, much branched; pome the size of a pea, 
scarlet, acid; seeds 2 in each cell. — Wood solid, soft, tough, 
used to prevent witchcraft and enchantment by a piece being 
carried about a person, or by small cattle being driven 
through a hoop made of it ; berries dried and powdered 
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