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England, rare to the N. and in Scotland. VAR. R. bibractea'ta, Bast., shoots 

 stronger more arching, leaflets large more acute, fruit obovoid, peduncles 

 thinly glandular. (Easily mistaken for stylo'sa.) 



Sub-sp. K. STYLO'SA, Bast. ; bush tall, rarely low, leaflets pubescent beneath, 

 peduncles elongate more or less bristly and glandular, sepals reflexed much 

 pinnate, styles as long as or shorter than the stamens. Connects arven'sis 

 \vith cani'na. R. stylo 'sa proper ; leaflets oblong acute rounded at the base 

 hairy all over beneath, petioles and peduncles with a few glands and bristles, 

 flowers 3-6 white, styles protruded, disk very prominent. Sussex. VAB. 

 R. sys'tyla. Bast. (R. collina, Engl. Bot., not Jacq. R. leucochroa, Desv.), like 

 stylo'sa but flowers usually pink, leaflets hairy only on the nerves beneath, 

 and petioles less hairy. Mid. and S. England. VAR. opa'ca. Baker ; leaflets 

 still more hairy beneath rounded at the base, peduncle shorter naked, flower 

 white 1 in. diam., styles scarcely protruded. Kent. VAR. gallicoi'des, 

 Baker ; habit and leaflets of sys'tyla, but prickles of stem mixed with copious 

 glands and bristles, leaflets almost doubly-serrate, flowers white, fruit narrow, 

 styles as long as stamens. Warwick. VAR. Monso'nia, Lindl. ; low, erect, 

 flowers red very large, styles scarcely protruded, fruit subglobose orange- 

 red. Hereford. VAR. R. fastiyia'ta, Bast.; flowers pink, styles not pro- 

 truded. 



12. PY'RUS, L. PEAK, APPLE, SERVICE, &c. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves deciduous, simple or pinnate ; stipules deci- 

 duous. Floivers white or pink, in terminal cymes or corymbs, honeyed ; 

 bracts subulate. Calyx-tube urceolate ; lobes 5, superior, reflexed, per- 

 sistent or deciduous. Petals 5. Stamens many, filaments sometimes con- 

 nate at the base. Disk annular, or coating the calyx-tube. Carpels 2-5, 

 connate and adnate to the calyx-tube ; styles distinct or connate below, 

 stigmas truncate ; ovules 2 in each cell, ascending. Fruit (a pome) fleshy, 

 2-5-celled ; endocarp cartilaginous or bony often 2-valved, cells 1-2- 

 seeded. DISTRIB. N. temp, and cold regions; species 40. ETYM. The 

 old Latin name. 



SECTION 1. Py'rus proper. Fruit large 5-celled ; cells 1-2-seeded ; 

 endocarp cartilaginous. Flowers umbellate or in simple cymes. Styles 5. 



1. P. commu'nis, L. ; cymes simple, styles distinct to the base, fruit 



pyriform. Wild Pear. 



Woods and thickets, from Yorkshire southd., a relict of gardens ? ; (a denizen ? 

 Wats.) ; fl. April-May. A shrub or small tree, 20-40 ft. ; branchlets more 

 or less spinescent and pendulous. Leaves 1-1 in., fascicled on the last 

 year's wood, alternate on the shoots, oblong-ovate, acute, obtusely serrate, 

 more or less pubescent or flocculent below when young, those of the young 

 tree often lobed; petiole slender. Flowers 1-1^ in. diam., white, proterogynous. 

 Fruit 1-2 in. long. DISTRIB. E.Europe to W. Asia, Himalaya. 



P. commu'nis proper (P. Pyras'ter, L.) ; leaves shortly acuminate pubescent 

 below when young, base of fruit obconic. VAR. P. Ach'ras, Gsertn. ; leaves 

 broader acute or cuspidate flocculent on both surfaces when young, fruit 

 rounded at the base. Rarer. VAR. P. corda'ta, Desv. (Briyy'sii, Syme) ; 

 leaves ovate base rounded, fruit very small globose or pyriform. Cornwall. 



