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PYRUS* Bollwylleriana. 

 The BoUwijller Pear. 



ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. PoMACE/E Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 83.) 



P YR US. — Suprd, vol. 6. fol. 514. 



P. Bollwylleriana ; foliis ovatis gross^ serratis subtfis gemmisque tomentosis, 



corynihis multifloris. De Cand. prodr. 2. 634. 

 P. Pollwylleriana. /. Bauh. hist. \.p. 59. ic. 

 P. PoUveria. Liiin. mant. pi. 244. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 208. Spreng. 



syst. veg. 2. 510. 

 P. irregularis. " Du Roi" sec. Sprengel. 

 P. Bollwylleriana. De Cand.Ji. 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 Bollvvyller 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 Ftorc Fnuicaisc. Tlie 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. 



