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PYRUS, L. LimU. 



279. P. torminalis, Ehrh. Wild Service Tree. 



Native ; in copses, woods, and hedges. Rare, but thinly dis- 

 tributed over nuich of the wooded and enclosed portions of 

 country. Latter part of May, June. 



c. I. A few old bushes in a field hedge at right angles with the road 

 between Trematon village and Trehan, St. Stephens. On a 

 hedge-bank close to Pillaton village. 

 II. Harewood, near Calstock, by the path to Morwellham Ferry, 

 1874. Cotehele Wood, close to the Tamar. 



D. III. A splendid example — a tree at a rough calculation between thirty 

 and forty feet high, with a bole clear of branches for about six 

 feet from the ground, and a few inches from the surface four 

 feet in circumference — in Warleigh Wood, near the heronry ; 

 in another part of this wood six small trees or bushes, the 

 largest from fifteen to twenty feet high ; and in a third place, 

 three or four from five to seven feet ; Jour. Bot. ix. 242 ; 1871. 

 A single scrubby bush by the road to Warleigh House from Old 

 Warleigh Lane. On the border of a copse by the road between 

 Denham Bridge and Beer Alston ; a bush by the footway from 

 Beer to Tuckermarsh Quay. Wood at Newbridge, 1868. 

 IV. By the Dartmoor tramway at Fancy Wood, in four or five spots ; 

 in one, two rather old but not large bushes often produce 

 flowers, and some seasons a little fruit. Boringdon Hill, near 

 Colebrook. 

 V. In a hedge at Wembury ; Phyt. v. N.S. 36.9. This station is 

 rather between Pl}anstock and Wembury, near Spriddlestone, 

 where are several bushes. Two or three on a hedge-bank near 

 Whiverton House, by the road to Yealmpton. 

 Ascends to about 320 feet between Denham Bridge and Beer. 



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280. P. latifolia, Syme, MSS. Rep. Bot. Ex. Club, 1872-74, 19, 20. 

 Broad-leaved Whitehean. 

 Native ; in hedge-rows and woods. Very rare. Part of May, 

 June. 



D. III. A single very old stock on a hedge -bank by the road from 

 Tamerton Foliot to Roborough Down, near Bickham ; another 

 in a similar situation between the former place and Roborough 

 village ; the last very stunted through having had its branches 

 cut away whenever the hedge-row has been pared ; Jour. Bot. 

 vi. 327. In two or three spots in hedges about the southern 

 border of Roborough Down. 

 IV. Five or six bushes on a hedge-bank bounding Wigvor Down, 

 near Meavy. Two large bushes in a wood, principally of Oak, 



