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REE A, SS. ECL tot 
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PYRUS* crenáta. 
Crenated Beam- Tree. 
ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Pomaczx Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 83.) 
PYRUS.—Supra, vol. 6. fol. 514. 
P. crenata; foliis oblongis crenato-serratis utringue acutis junioribus den- 
sissimê lanatis adultis supra calvis nitidissimis, corymbis lanatis. 
P. crenata. Don prodr. fl. nep. 237. 
P. vestita. Wall. cat. no. 679. 
Arbor facie omnind P. Arise, quá differt foliis junioribus densissime lanatis 
acutissimis, corymbis (in exemplo spontan.) lanugine albissimá obductis, foliis 
adultis nitidis glaberrimis subtüs quasi pannosis. 
This is one of the trees that, along with the P. /anata, 
or Kamunensis, which is æ mere variety of Pyrus Aria, 
recalls to the mind of the British traveller upon the moun- 
tains of India his own land, and the sweet scenery of the 
west of England. Nature seems to have intended it to 
brave the utmost inclemency of climate; for in its own 
country, in the earliest spring, the leaves, while still delicate 
and tender, are clothed with a thick white coating of wool ; 
and the flowers themselves are so deeply immersed in an 
ample covering of the same material, as to bid defiance even 
to Tartarian cold. But in proportion as it descends towards 
the plains, or as the season of warm weather advances, it 
throws off its fleecy coat, and at length becomes as naked 
and glittering with green as the trees which have never had 
such rigour to endure. In England it scarcely acquires 
any part of its natural woolliness, but is as naked as our 
common Beam-Tree. | 
- * See fol. 1196. 
