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PYRUS* crenata. 

 Crenated Beam-Tree. 



ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Pomaces Juss. (Introduction to the natural systetti of 

 Botany, p. 83.) 



PYRUS.— Supra, vol. G.fol. 514. 



P. crenata; foliis oblongis crenato-serratis utrinque acutis junioribus den- 

 sissime lanatis adultis supra calvis nitidissimis, corymbis lanatis, 



P. crenata. Don prodr.Ji. nep. 237. 



P. vestita. Wall. cat. no. 679. 



Arbor facie oninino P. Arise, qiid differ t foliis junioribus densissim^ lanatis 



acutissimis, corymbis {in exemplo spontan.) lanugine albissimd obductis, foliis 



adultis nitidis glaberrimis subtus quasi pannosis. 



This is one of the trees that, along with the P. lanata, 

 or Kamujiensis, which is a 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 immeised 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 acqiures 

 any part of its natural woolliness, but is as naked as our 

 common Beam-Tree. 



* Seefol. 1196. 



