ROSACE. E. 213 



Leaves roundish, oval, oblons^'-oblanceolate or olilon;^, wliite- 

 fclted or grey ilocculent-l'clted beneath oven when ohl, rounded or 

 Ti-edge-shaped at the base, rather obtuse at the apex, more or less 

 deeply lobed and serrated at the margins ; lobes blunt or sub-acute 

 at the apex ; veins 6 to 12 on each side. Flowers in compound 

 corymbs, Avitli the jiediccls and calyx-tube felted. Styles generally 

 2, woolly at the base. Fruit sub-globular or ovoid, scarlet when 

 ripe. 



Sub Species I.— Pyrus eu-Aria. 

 Plate CCCCLXXXII. 



P. Aria, Ehrh. (in part). Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 117 ; et Auct. Plur. 

 Sorbus Aria, Crantz. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. pp. 42, 176. 

 Crattegus Aria, Linn. Sp. Plant, p. G81 (in pait). 



Leaves roundish- or broadly-oval, ovate, or elliptical, flocculcnt 

 above until after the flowers expand, pure white-felted beneath, 

 rounded or abrupt at the base, with numerous small lobes from 

 below the middle to the apex, incisions between the lobes deepest 

 about one-fourth from the apex ; lobes broader than long, pointing 

 towards the apex of the leaf, blunt or sub-acute, unequally ser- 

 rated ; veins 10 to 12 on each side, very prominent beneath.* 

 Calyx-segments rcllexed in flower, erect in fruit. 



In woods, copses, on chalky banks and limestone rocks. 

 Common in the southern half of England. I have it from Somerset, 

 Hants, Wilts, Gloucester, Kent, Surrey, Berks, and Monmouthsliire, 

 and it probably occurs in the neighbouring counties. One speci- 

 men has been sent from Ronald Kirk, Teesdale, by Mr. J. G. 

 Baker, but marked as a possible alien. In Scotland it is only to 

 be seen in ornamental plantations. 



England, [Scotland], Ireland ? Tree. Early Summer. 



A small tree, 10 to 20 feet high, or more rarely merely a large 

 bush, with dark brownish bark. Leaves fascicled on the spurs or 

 flowering brandies, remote on the woolly barren shoots, those of 

 tlie spurs 3 to U inches long, flocculcnt above when young, but at 

 length glabrous ; beneath pure white, from the abundance of felted 

 woolly hairs; leaves on tlie barren slioots generally narrower than 

 the others, more acute and more deeply lobed. Flowers | incli 

 across, in a much-branched lax corymb, with tlie pedicels and 

 calyces densely woolly. Petals roundish, concave, white. Fruit -} 



* The leaves of the young shoots are exceedingly variahlo in form ; the descriptions 

 arc therefore taken from those ou the spurs, or short flowering-branches. 



