14G ROSACEyE. 



By the end of August the fruit is ripe, and is nuich eaten by birds 

 of the Thnish kind. It is one of the bushes of most frequent occurrence 

 on Dartmoor. 



282. P. communis, L. Wild Pear. 



Denizen ; in hedge-rows. Rare. April ; and sometimes early 

 part of May. 



c. I. A bush in a hedge-row near Trematon village. One in a field 

 hedge near Markwell, by a cart-road to the Notter. A large 

 and old bush of var. a. Pyraster m a hedge away from houses 

 by a lane between Blarrick farm-house and Trelay ; very 

 spinous, but with the large leaves of a cultivated Pear ; fruit 

 produced in 1877. One measured in September of that year 

 was 1^ inches long by Ig inches broad ; in flavour insipid, but 

 not austere, though very gritty. 



D. III. An old bush in a hedge between Plymouth and Milehouse. A 

 small tree in a bushy spot near Saltash Passage ; it occasionally 

 produces fruit, and is Pyraster^ coming near some of the culti- 

 vated kinds. Three bushes at Blaxton, 1868. 

 IV. A bush in a hedge near Lipson Mill. A small tree in one near a 



house by the road from Brixton to Plympton. 

 V. An old bush in a hedge between Oollaton Cross and Bridgend, A 

 very small one at Plarestone, below a hedge, 1868. An old 

 bush on a hedge-bank near a house, just beyond where the old 

 church-path from Noss to Revelstoke leads out into a lane : I 

 believe now no longer there. 

 VI. Some bushes, seemingly planted, with one of Mesjnius germanica^ 

 in a hedge close to Battisborough Cross. 



c. Briggsii, Boswell-Syme. P. cordata, Desv. obs. pi. D'Anj. 



152 ; Nyman, Consp. Florae Europjeae. 

 Hedges. Very rare. May. 

 c. 11. An old bush in a hedge close to the path leading through fields 

 from St. Johns village to Higher Tregantle ; growing close to 

 the ]Millbrook Road. Apparently similar to the Egg Buckland 

 shrub, but no flowers or fruit ever found for comparison. Just 

 beyond the western limit of District i. three more bushes 

 occur, between Seaton and Looe. (See Bot. Ex. Club Pep., 

 1876,17, 18.) 

 D. IV. In three or four spots in a hedge between Thornbury and Common 

 Wood, Egg Buckland. 

 Since I discovered this Pear, some years ago, it has attracted consider- 

 able notice, and the following references point to particulars concerning 

 it : Boswell-Syme, Bot. Ex. Club Eep., 1870, 11 ; Masters, Gard. Cliron. 



