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ORD. XXVIIL. POMACEA. 
(From Pomum, an Apple) 
Bearing Fruit of the Apple, Pear, Cherry, and Berry kind. 
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PYRUS CYDONIA. COMMON QUINCE TREE. 
SYNONYMA. Cydonium malum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
Malus Cotone’. Gerard. Emac. p. 1452. Raii Hist. p. 1452. 
J. Bauh. Hist. vol. i. p. 35. Malus Cotonea vulgaris. Park. 
Theat. p. 1504. Mala cotonea majora. Bauh. Pin. p. 434. 
Flor. Aust. v. iv. t. 342. Duplex varietas in hortis colitur, scil. 1. 
Cydonia fructu oblongo leviori. Tourn. Instit. p. 632. Mala_ 
Cotonea majora. C. Bauh. I. ¢. depicta ab ill Du Hamel, in 
Traité des Arb. fruit. ad p. 206.-. 2 Cydonia fructu breviore et 
rotundiore. Tourn. l.c. Mala cotonea minora. C. Bauh. l. c. 
depicta in Du Hamel Traité des Arb. et Arbustes Tab. 83. 
Prostat et alia 3 varietas: Cydonia latifolia lusitanica. Tourn... 
cujus fructus oblongus succosior et minus acerbus, sed rarioris 
proventus. Vide Murray App. Med. vol. iii. p. 196. 
Class Icosandria. Ord. Pentagynia. Lin. Gen, Plant. 626. Bie: 
Ess.Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-fidus. Petala5. Pomum inferum 5-loculare, 
polyspermum. : 
Sp. Ch. F. fol. integerrimis, flor. solitariis, - 
No. 43.—vor. 4, 6M 
