793. P. lanuginósa.
¥ 34. P. s p u ' r i a Dec. The spurious Service Tree.
ICentification. Dec. Prod , 2. p. 637. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 649.
s p S ' p i r . Y auffiorityof WilU. Sp. 2. p. 1022.; Sórbus
Snec Char., f r . Leaflets ovate, crenate ; 3 pairs, with an odd one, which is
lonoer than the others ; all are hairy beneath. Petiole gland-beanng
upon the upper side. Styles 6. Intermediate, and perhaps a hybrid, between
P. aucupària and P. orbutifòlia. (Dec. Prod.) A low tree, with
ramblin«, slender, dark-coloured shoots, and fruit resembling that of P. arbutifolia.’
Height 10 ft. to 20 ft. In cultivation in 1800. Flowers white
May. Fruit small, black ; ripe in September. Decaying leaves dark
purplish red. Naked young wood purplish,
I at iety ^ g péndula Hort., Sorbus hybrida péndula Lodd. Cat., P. spùria
sambiicifòlia Hort. Brit, (the plate of this variety in Arb. Bril., 1st
edit. vol. vi.) has pendulous shoots, and is a very distinct and
most interesting kind. There are fine low trees of it in the Horticultural
Society’s Garden; and, if grafted 10 or 12 feet high, instead
of only 3 or 4 feet, as it is tliere, it would form one of the
most beautiful of pendulous trees. I t is prolific in flowers, ancl
dark purple fruit ; and the leaves die off o f an intensely dark purplish
red. Every hawthorn hedge might be adorned with this tree
by grafting.
Both the species and variety are very desirable small trees for their leaves,
their flowers, and their fruit ; they are readily propagated by grafting on the
common thorn or mountain ash, and require the same soil as that species.
Wall. The leafy Mountain Ash.
Don’s Mill., 2. p. 648,
¥ 35. P. FOLIOLO'SA
Identrncetiim. Wall. Cat. p. 677. ; PI. Asiat. Ear., 2, p. ... . ,
Engrariusl. Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar., 2. t. 189.; and our flg. 795.
Spec. Char., Leaves pinnate,
with 7—8 pairs of elliptic-lanceolate,
mucronate leaflets, which
are serrated at the apex, pubescent
beneath. Cymes branched,
terminal, pubescent. {Doris
Mill.) A deciduous tree. Nepal,
on mountains. Height 15 ft.
to 20 ft. Introduced ?. Flowers
white ; June. Pome small, obovate
roundish, red ; ripe Nov.
This very desirable and probably
quite hardy species, we believe,
lias not yet been introduced, but
it doubtle 5 will soon be so.
P. hircina Wall. Cat. p. 675.,
and Don’s Adill. ii. p. 648., is a
native of Nepal, with pinnate
leaves, and numerous leaflets,
rusty beneatli ; and with red fruit. 795. P . foliolòsa.
about the size of that of tlie common mountain ash.
§ vii. Adenorachis Dec.
Sect. Char. Petals spreading, each witii a claw', and a concave limb. Styles
2—5. Pome globose. Leaves simple, the midrib bearing glands on its
upper surface (which is the character expressed in the sectional name).
Flowers in branched corymbs. ■— Deciduous shrubs, natives of North
America ; growing to the height of 4 or 5 feet, and prolific in flowers,
followed by red, dark purple, or black, fruit. They are all readily
propagated'by division, by suckers, or by grafting on the common hawthorn.
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