FUKTHER NOTES ON SM.VLL-FK0ITED PEAKS. 297 



any native for its excessive and, as regards the time of year, altogether 

 abuomial raiu-fall, and seriously detrimental in consequence to agri- 

 culture. 1 may here notice that four Bambuseoi described by the late 

 Dr. Kuprecht* — Chusquea anelytroides, C. Meyeriana, Merostachys 

 Fischeriana and RiedeAiana — have been inadvertently overlooked by 

 Munro in his monograph. 



I am indebted to the Pwcv. J. C. Nevin for accurate and neatly 

 executed analytical drawings of both the above Grasses. 



In expressing publicly an earnest hope that Greneral Munro may 

 ere long tind leisure to render available to botanists generally the 

 results of his unrivalled acquaintance with this family, by the publica- 

 tion of " a full account of all Grasses at present known in collections," 

 which fifteen years ago he himself led us to look for,f I have reason 

 to know that 1 but act as spokesman for a very numeroua body of 

 Btudeuts. 



FURTHER NOTES ON SMALL-FRUITED PEARS. 

 Bz M. T. Masters, M.D., F.R.S. 



Since I wrote concerning certain small-fmited Pears in the August 

 number of the Journal (p. 225) two additional communictttions have 

 reached me on the subject. One may be deemed wholly satisfactory. 

 The other is so far satisfactory that it may serve the interests of truth 

 by throwing a doubt upon the Persian origin of the forms in question. 

 Of course in so doing the roniantic history narrated on the authority 

 of Dr. Pheue is partially, but only partially, impugned. 



It may suffice to repeat here that tiiere is very good reason for 

 asserting that the Pyrm communis, var. Briggsii of iSyme, which was 

 found near Plymouth by Mr. Briggs, as formerly detailed, is the same 

 form as that found in some parts of Anjou, Brittany, and the Gironde, 

 and which is known to French botanists as F. cor data, Desv. There 

 is also a Persian form, called by Buhse F. Boissieriana, referred by no 

 less an authority than M. Decaisne to P. cordata, Desv. Such were 

 the facts, leaving aside the inferences founded on them, as known to 

 me when I last wrote. 



Shortly afterwards Mr. Briggs was kind enough to forward for 

 my inspection several specimens of what he thinks is the same form' 

 as that he originally met with. As these specimens are from barren 

 shoots without flowers or fruits, it is, of course, not absolutely 

 certain that they belong to the same form, though the similarity 

 of foliage is so great that it seems in the highest degree probable 

 that they do. 



" Ttiese recently-found bushes grow by an ancient lane above the' 

 coast between Seaton and Love, East Cornwall, eleven or twelve 

 miles from Egg-Buckland (the original locality), and there seems to 

 be good reason for considering tlie shrub iudigonous at this new spot. 



* Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. viii., n. 21 (1811). 

 t JoLirn. LiuD. ISoc. vi., 33. 



