246 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Leaves oval or sub-rliomboidal, 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, ei'cct in 

 fruit. 



In hilly woods. Hare. 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. 

 Borrcr, at Kew, there are specimens fi'om 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 Avith 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 

 " gathered 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 ia 

 1852 he sent to the Botanical Society of London normal speci- 

 mens of P. eu-Aria from Monmouthshire, labelled as Pyrus scaudica, 

 Bab. 



England. Tree. Early Summer. 



This differs from the two preceding forms of P. Aria in the lobes 

 of the leaves being much more deeply separated from each other, 

 and rather more acutely serrated, and the felt beneath being 

 flocculent, mucli 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. 

 scandica. 



The British plant seems to be intermediate between the Scan- 



