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PYRUS* Bollwylleriána. 
The Bollwyller Pear. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. Pomacem Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 83.) 
PYRUS. — Supra, vol. 6. fol. 514. 
P. Bollwylleriana ; foliis ovatis grosse serratis subtús gemmisque tomentosis, 
corymbis multifloris. De Cand. prodr. 2. 634. 
P. Pollwylleriana. J. Bauh. hist. 1. p. 59. ic. 
P. Pollveria. Linn. mant. pl. 244. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 208. Spreng. 
syst. veg. 2. 510. 
P. irregularis. “ Du Roi" sec. Sprengel. 
P. Bollwylleriana. De Cand. fl. Franc. 6. 530. 
* This species differs from the common Pear in its 
‘leaves being strongly toothed and downy underneath : in 
the wild state it is readily known from the Pear, which is 
glabrous, and has scarcely any denticulations in the leaves; 
but among the numerous cultivated varieties there are 
several intermediate between the two wild types, and pro- 
bably hybrids created in our Gardens and Orchards. 
“ The Bollwyller Pear-tree grows in the woods round 
the town of that name in Alsace, where it was first noticed 
by J. Bauhin." 
Such are the remarks made upon this plant by the 
learned M. De Candolle in his Flore Francaise. The only 
point in which we should differ from him is in attributing 
the origin of some of our Garden varieties to the intermix- 
ture of this and the common Pear. We, on the contrary, 
consider this so distinct from the latter, that, if it were not 
* See fol. 1196. 
