MOUNTAIN ASH, OR ROWAN. Ill 
leaping over the whole of Europe and appearing as an indigene 
in Britain. ' 
In its wild condition the Medlar is a much-branched and 
spiny tree, from ten to twenty feet high, in these respects 
resembling the Hawthorn; but, like the Pear, it puts off its 
Medlar. 
A, flower. 
defences when cultivated. Its leaves are large and undivided, 
of an oblong-lance shape, downy beneath, and sometimes with 
the edges very finely toothed. The solitary white flowers are 
large — one and a half inches across — with a woolly cal)Tc, whose 
five tips expand into leafy growths. They appear in May or 
