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Addenda to the Account of the Service Tree, plate 21 iv 
S ORBITS DOMESTIGA. Linn A fpecles plant. 
Sor bus Bauhtn , hijl. 1 . 59.— Gerard. Emend. 1471.— Ran, hijl. plant . 1456. 
—Sativa Bauh. pin. 415.— Sorbus legitima, Cluf. Fiji. I. p. 10.— Parkinfon 
1420.— A. Gouan Flora Monfpeliaca, 253-.— Sorbus foliispennat'is fubtus to- 
mentojis. Hall. Helv. 351. — Du Hamel traite des arbres & arbujles qui fe 
cultivent en plein terre y tom. 2. p. 271 .—Hudfoni. Flora Anglica, p. 188. 
The True SERVICE or SORB.- La CORME ou SORBE. 
T HIS tree is moft common in Italy and Germany, but is found likewife 
in feveral parts of France. It grows fpontaneoufly in fome places in 
this ifland, particularly in the mountainous parts of Cornwall, as well as the 
moorlands of Staffordlhire,, * and fometimes is cultivated in gardens in- the 
neighbourhood of London. Its lingular beauty may recommend it to the 
notice of landed gentlemen, who often ornament their grounds with foreign 
plants, and exclude at the lame time indigenous fhrubs equally beautiful as 
-well as ufeful. Froit does not feem to injure it; the fevere winter of 1709, 
which deltroyed fuch multitudes of plants on the Continent, is faid to have 
fpared the Sorbus. Our Author, in the defcription of plate 211. (Gleanings , 
P. I. p. i.) fuppofes this tree unknown to botanifts. His favourite ftudy 
appears to have wholly engrolfed his attention, that he feldom perufed their 
writings, or was acquainted himfelf with their difcoveries j 'for long before 
Mr.E^wtfr^publilhed his Natural HiEory, a certain magifrate of Worceferf- 
addrelfed 
* Amat loca humida, montana & frigidis proxima, & folum pinguiffimum. Rail 
h'tft. -plant. 1456. 
f Edward Pitt , Efq-, alderman of that city. See Philofophical Lranfafiitms , No. 
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