24.6: ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Leaves oval or sub-rhomboidal, glabrous above by the time the 
flowers expand, flocculent-felted and grey beneath, rounded or 
wedge-shaped with an angle generally greater than a right angle 
at the base; margins lobed from near the base to the apex, in- 
cisions deepest towards the middle of the sides; lobes longer than 
broad, blunt or sub-acute, directed towards the apex of the leaf, 
coarsely and acutely serrate; veins 5 to 8 on each side, slightly 
prominent beneath. Calyx-segments spreading in flower, erect in 
fruit. 
In hilly woods. Rare. I have seen specimens in Mr. Watson’s 
herbarium from North Devon, and Nightingale Valley, near Bristol, 
those from the latter locality, however, Mr. Watson thinks may be 
possibly a form of P. eu-Aria. In the herbarium of the late Mr. 
Borrer, at Kew, there are specimens from Carisbrook Castle, Isle of 
Wight, and Castle Dinas Bran, Denbighshire. I possess an ex- 
ample from near Plymouth, collected by Mr. Archer Briggs : this, 
however, is a barren shoot only, so that the leaves cannot be relied 
on for determining the plant with certainty. - Miss Gifford has sent 
me fresh specimens from Minehead, Somerset, from which our plate 
is taken. Professor Babington mentions it from Culbone, Somerset ; 
Silchester, Hampshire ; and Pangbourne, Berkshire. I have care- 
fully searched the Berkshire locality, but could find nothing but 
P. eu-Aria. That gentleman also mentions that it has been 
“ oathered at High Force, Teesdale, by Mr. Hort,” and this is no 
doubt the Rev. F. J. A. Hort; and if so, his determination in 1851. 
(the date of the notice) cannot be relied on for this species, as in 
1852 he sent to the Botanical Society of London normal speci- 
mens of P. eu-Aria from Monmouthshire, labelled as Pyrus scandica, 
Bab. | | 
England. Tree. Early Summer. 
This differs from the two preceding forms of P. Ariain the lobes 
of the leaves being much more deeply separated from each other, 
and rather more acutely serrated, and the felt beneath being 
flocculent, much less dense and not pure white but yellowish, and 
as the green of the leaf appears through it, the underside of the 
latter has not the snowy appearance of P. eu-Aria and P. rupicola. 
The branches of the corymb are longer, so that it is more lax; 
the flowers are as large as those of P. rupicola and rather larger 
than in P. eu-Aria. : 
Smith’s P. “ Aria,” E. B., 1858, seems to be a bad figure of P. 
scandiéa. } 
The British plant seems to be intermediate between the Scan- 
