EOSACEiE. 105 



Apperton; Melv. 28. There are some fine hawthorns now in the 

 Kegent's Park, which are probably the same as those mentioned with 

 admiration by Pepys in his Diary. 



MESPILUS, Linn, 



[226. ^M. erermanica, X. Medlar. 



M. sylvestris spinosa (Merrett). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 364 ; iii. 424. Syme E. B. iii. t. 478. 

 Hedges ; very rare. Tree. May, June, 



III. Harrow Grove ; Melv. 28. 



IV. In the hedges betwixt Hampsted Heath and Highgate ; Merrett, 77. 

 First record: Merrett, 1666. Merrett's station may have produced the 



wild plant, but it has not been corroborated by recent observers.] 



PYRTTS, Linn. 



227. P. communis, L. Wild Pear, 



P. sylvestris, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 366; iii. 424 ; Comp. 167. Syme E. B. iii. t, 488. 

 Hedges and woods ; rather rare. Tree. April, May. 

 I. Harefield, frequent ; Blackst. Fasc. 82. 

 III. Hedge near Twickenham. 



IV. Two fields S. of road bet. Neesdon and Blackfoot Hill ; Farrar. Kear 

 the path across the meadows from Child's Hill to Hendon; Irv, 

 Lond. Fl. 187. In hedge-wastes to the north of Finchley; Loiid. 

 Arh. et Frut. 882. 

 VI. Highgate Wood, 1850; ^er J, ^arcfw. Hadley ! ; Warren. 

 VII. [A solitary tree in field bet. Primrose Hill and Adelaide Koad, 1862, 

 perhaps remains of a garden.] 



First record: Blackstone, 1737. Loudon {loc. cit. 888) says that the 

 oldest pear trees in the neighbourhood of London are at Twickenham, 

 where are some 50 to 60 ft. high, and with trunks 18 in. to 3 ft. in 

 diameter. No doubt often not native, but accidentally sown from 

 orchard pears. The specimen in Herb. Harr, labelled P. communis 

 seems a foreign Pyrus allied to Aria. 



ZZa. p. mxalus, L. Crab. 



Cyb. Br. i. 366 ; Comp. 1 67. Syme E. B. iii. t. 489. 

 Hedges and heaths ; rather common. Tree or Shrub. May. 

 I. Harefield ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 68. Harrow Weald Common. 

 II. Staines, 



III. Harrow ; Melv. 29. 



IV, Kingsbury ; Cole, North Heath and Bishop's Wood, Hampstead. 



Finchley j Newb, 



