From all that can be learned from American authors, as 
well as from copious specimens I have received from various 
Botanists of that country, it does not appear that there is 
more than one species of the ApENorAcuis section of Pyrus, 
and that varying with red and black fruit. In the absence 
of the fruit, it seems impossible to distinguish these varie- 
ties ; the tomentum which clothes the young leaves particu- 
larly being more or less deciduous ; so that both states may 
be seen with glabrous or woolly foliage. Dr. Linpiey’s 
Pyrus floribunda is surely only the black-fruited kind, retain- 
ing the down on the foliage, and thus, as he observes, par- 
taking of the character assigned to both respectively. 
Descr. Our plant forms a handsome bush, five to six 
feet high, copiously branched, the branches with dark brown, 
glossy bark, the young shoots green and downy. Leaves 
obovato-lanceolate, acute, finely serrated, almost sessile, 
reticulated with veins and with glands on the midrib, the 
young ones, especially beneath, and frequently in a more 
advanced stage, clothed with rather thick down ; at length, 
often wholly glabrous. Corymbs copious on the short 
branches, about as large as those of the White Thorn. 
Calyx often tinged with bright red, and the anthers before 
bursting are of the same colour. Petals obovate, concave, 
slightly stained with blush. 
