for its fruit, we should have scarcely suspected the relation- 
ship of the two : it has the habit, leaves, and inflorescence, 
of P. Aria, rather than of P. communis; but it is no doubt 
abundantly distinct both from it and all other species. 
That the cultivated Pear does now comprehend the traces 
of more than one distinct species, as M. De Candolle has 
elsewhere suggested, we believe; but P. sinaica, nivalis, 
salvifolia, salicifolia, and their kindred, are more likely 
2 this species to have intermixed with the common 
ear. 
A tree, with stout, erect branches, having the habit of 
P. Aria, and growing to about the same size. The buds 
are large and downy. Leaves on long stalks, deep green, 
coarsely and rather unevenly serrated, downy beneath. 
Corymbs of flowers very dense; the calyw covered with 
dense wool; the petals small and white. These are suc- 
ceeded by a small number of little yellowish-orange tur- 
binate pendulous fruit, which are austere and hard. 
Of no value.as a fruit, but common in Shrubberies as 
an ornamental tree. The Nurserymen graft it upon the 
Crabstock. 
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