560 ICOSANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Pyrus. 



in both, though by no means universal in either. I suspect the 

 older trees bear the rounder and less divided leaves. 



2. M. ger?7ianica. Common Medlar. 



Leaves lanceolate, a little downy. Flowers solitary, nearly 



sessile, tei'minal. Styles five. 

 M.germanica. Linn. Sp. PI. 6S4. Willd. v. 2. 10\0. Fl. Br. 530. 



Engl. Bot. V. 22. 1. 1523. Gartn. v. 2. 43. t. 87. Ehrii. Arb. 154. 



Duham.Arb.v.2. 14. i'.4. 

 M. n. 1094. Hull. Hist. v. 2. 33. 

 Mespilus. Dod.Pempt. 801. f. Trag. Hiiit.]0\4.f. Dill.inRaii 



Sijn. 453. 

 M.sativa. Ger. Em. 1453. f. 

 M. vulgaris. Camer. Epit. 154./. 

 M. altera. Mattli. Valgr. v. 1 . 230./. 



In hedges. 



In all the hedges about Minshull, Cheshire ; Mr. Du Bois. Dil- 

 lenius. About Ashburnham, Sussex, truly wild. Rev. J. Uavies. 



Tree. May. 



Branches spreading ; thorny in a wild state. Leaves deciduous, 

 alternate, spreading, on short stalks, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 wavy, generally entire, single-ribbed, veiny, 4 or 5 inches long; 

 most downy beneath. FL solitary at the end of each branch, on 

 short downy stalks, targe, with white undulated petals, inodo- 

 rous. Cal. with long, narrow, downy, permanent segments. 

 Styles 5, club-shaped, encompassed at the base with an elevated 

 ring arising from the floral receptacle. Fruit depressed, con- 

 cave at the top, somewhat hairy, austere, not eatable till it is 

 mellowed by keeping. Cultivation has produced many varieties, 

 differing in size and flavour. The thorns disappear by culture, 

 and are not to be seen in gardens, though 1 have noticed them 

 on foreign wild specimens, and my late friend Mr. Davies, of 

 Trin. Coll, Cambridge, observed them in Sussex. See also the 

 wooden cuts of old authors, 



252. PYRUS. Pear, Apple and SerVice. 



Linn. Gen. 25\. Juss. 335. Fl. Br. 531. Tourn. t. 404. Lam. 



t. 435. Gcertn. t. 87. 

 Sorbus. Linn. Gen. 250. Juss. 335. Lam. t. 434. 

 Malus. Jmss.334. Tourn. tAO&. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 250. 



Cal. superior, of 1 leaf, concave, in 5 deep, spreading, mostly 

 permanent segments. Pet. 5, roundish, concave, much 

 larger than the calyx, and proceeding from its rim, with 

 short claws. Filam. 20, from the rim of the calyx within 

 the petals, awl-shaped, shorter than the corolla. Anth. 



