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year. It covered an acre of ground, and would have extended much further had Nature 
been left to herself. It is said to have been in its greatest perfection about 1776, and 
in 1836 was still standing. 
Section II.—MALUS. Tournef. 
; Styles combined at the base, fruit sub-globose, umbilicate at the 
ase. 
SPECIES VI—PYRUS MALUS. Linn. 
Pirates CCCCLXXXIX. CCCCXC. 
Leaves on short or moderately long petioles, oval or roundish- 
oval, generally acuminate or cuspidate, rather finely and unequally 
serrate or crenate-serrate. lowers in simple umbels. Styles 
united at the base. Fruit sub-globose, umbilicate at the base. 
Sus-Specres L—Pyrus acerba. D. C. 
Prate CCCCLXXXIX, 
Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 572. 
Malus acerba, “ Merat.” Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. p. 236. 
P. Malus, var. a, acerba, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 117. 
P. Malas, var. a, sylvestris, Leighton, Fl. Shrop. p. 527. 
P. Malus, var. a, glabra, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. i. p. 261. 
P. Malus, var. a, acida, Wallr. Sched. Crit. p. 215. 
Young branches glabrous or finely pubescent. Leaves pubescent 
on the veins when young, glabrous when old. Pedicels elongated, 
slightly pubescent towards the summit. Calyx-tube sub-glabrous. 
Fruit drooping, about as long as, or shorter than, its pedicel. 
In woods, thickets, and hedges. Not unfrequent, and generally 
distributed, in the South and midland counties of England. I have 
never seen it in Scotland. 
England, Scotland? Ireland? Tree. Early Summer. 
A small tree, or more frequently a large shrub. Leaves 1 to 2 
inches long when mature, oval or roundish-oval, abruptly acuminate 
or very shortly cuspidate at the apex, only slightly downy when 
young and becoming quite glabrous even beneath. Flowers rather 
few, 12 inch across, white within, red on the outside. Calyx-segments 
woolly only ontheinside. Fruit 2 to 1inch in diameter, yellowish 
when ripe, with a depression at the base into which the peduncle is 
inserted. 
Common Crab-apple. 
French, Poirier Acerbe. 
As a picturesque tree, this is perhaps one of the most beautiful, and whether in 
flower or fruit is equally pleasing to the eye. The pretty red fruit is so exceedingly 
