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With, to Ed. 7. Sorbus torminalis, Ger. Matth. Cam. E.) Woods and 
hedges. Bath Hills, near Bungay. Mr. Woodward. Pendeford, Staf¬ 
fordshire, in hedges. Mr. Pitt. (On the rocks at Knot’s-hole, near Li¬ 
verpool, in a situation quite exposed to the salt water, and where it must 
occasionally be washed by the spray of the sea. Dr. Bostock. On the 
side of the foot-path to Alcester Park. Purton. On Trefarthen demesne, 
Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Hare Down, near Bodmin. Rev. J. Pike Jones. 
E.) T. May.* * 
(P. domes'tica. Leaves winged: leafits uniform, downy beneath, 
serrated towards the point: flowers panicled: fruit obovate. 
Sin. E.) 
Jacq. Austr. 447— (E. Bot. 350. E.) — Crantz. ii. 2. 3— Nash. i. at p. 10. f. 
I. 3— Matth.26 1— Clus. i. 10.3— Dod. 803. 1— Lob. Obs. 544. 1— Ger. 
Em. 1471. l~Park. 1420. 1— Blaclcw. 174— Fuchs. 576‘— Trag. 1012— 
J. B. i. a. 59— Lonic. i. 50. 1—( Gcert. 2. 87. E.) 
(A middle sized tree of slow growth and hard wood. Leaves unequally 
winged. Leafits seven to nine pair, with an odd one, sessile, oblong, 
equal, serrated from the middle ^to the point, about an inch long. 
Panicles terminal, downy, repeatedly forked. Flowers half an inch over, 
cream-coloured. Calyx woolly. Styles always five. Fruit obovate, an 
inch long, reddish. Seeds two in each cell, according to Gaertner, though 
one only attains perfection. Sm. E.) 
True Service-tree, or Soiib. (P. domestica. Sm. E.) P.Sorbus. Gaert. 
Sorbus domestica. Linn. Huds. With, to Ed. 7. Willd. E.) Mountainous 
forests. Mountainous parts of Cornwall, and the Moorlands of Stafford¬ 
shire. Ray. In the middle of a thick wood in the Forest of Wire, near 
Bewdley, one mile from MopsoiTs Cross, between that and Dowles 
Brook, (undoubtedly wild. E.) T. April—May.f 
(P. aucupa'ria. Leaves winged: smooth: leafits uniform, serrated : 
flowers corymbose: styles about three : fruit globular. E.) 
Mill. III. — Hunt. Evel. 218. i. p. 211. Ed. 2d.—FI. Dan. 1034—( E. Bot. 
337. E.)— Blackw. 173— Matth. 26 2— Dod. 834— Ger. Em. 1473— Lob. 
Obs. 544. 2—J.B. i. a. 62—Ger. 1290— Park. 1419. 2— Trag. 1009— 
Crantz. ii. 1. 4. 
(A highly ornamental tree, though of rather formal contour, of slow growth, 
and rarely attaining great size. Bark smooth. E.) Leafits seven or 
eight pair, sessile, spear-shaped, serrated, the intermediate ones the 
longest. Corymb terminal. Berry round, of a pleasant red or scarlet. 
* (The fruit, when a little frosted, becomes agreeably acid and wholesome, and sometimes 
appears in the London market: nevertheless, (with all due respect for so high an authority 
as Evelyn), we cannot altogether concur in his interpretation of the specific name, “ so 
called for its effects against gripings in the bowels.” E.) 
*j* The fruit is mealy and austere, not much unlike the Medlar. Chermes Sorhi and 
Coccinella biptistidata live upon this and P. aucuparia. Linn. The wood is valuable for 
making mathematical rulers and excisemen’s gauging sticks. Nash. (If not a primary 
argument, the inference is legitimate, and favourable to the study of nature, that amidst the 
general corruption of morals attendant on wealth and luxury among the R-omans, none but 
their prince of naturalists, (except perhaps the unamiable satyrist), possessed a mind suffi¬ 
ciently unsophisticated to expose the various artifices then practised. Of the prevalence of 
fraud and cheating, Pliny unreservedly admits innumerable instances, and among them 
states, (lib. xxiii. c. 7), that for the adulteration of Cinnabar, (an article of considerable im¬ 
portance to the limaer), was employed “ Sorbis tritis ,” the triturated fruit of the Service- 
tree. 
