ADDITIONAL NOTES, ETC. 435. 



introclucecl species only ; that of the Lakes, on authority of 

 Mr. Aiton's list, with the station of " hedges near Ulver- 

 ston." The much less frequency of the Pear, as com- 

 pared with the Crab, and the less confident tone usually 

 adopted by local writers in mentioning its stations and 

 claims to be held indigenous, both rather make against 

 P. communis as a native. Moreover, the Pear blossom is 

 more subject to injury from spring frosts, and the fruit 

 requires longer time or a higher temperature to ripen, 

 than is the case with the blossoms and fruit of the Crab or 

 Apple. Still, the Pear has been apparently wild in 

 England from a remote date. And Mr. Varenne remarks 

 that it " surely must be as wild as the Crab, though but 

 seldom met with. Gerarde, p. 1458, who gives us no en- 

 couragement to eat wild pears." I cannot divest myself 

 of a strong suspicion of some error in the following re- 

 cord of Pyrus communis, taken from the Flora of For- 

 farshire : " Rocks of Craig Maid, Glen Dole, Clova, 

 undoubtedly wUd, August, 1842, — out of flower." This 

 would go to i^rove P. communis a species of our arctic 

 or alpine flora. On the other hand, the Author of 

 the Flora of Forfarshire deems P. Mains " probably in- 

 troduced." 



364. Pyrus torminalis, vol. i. p. 367. 



Province 9 may be added in the area, on authority of 

 the Flora of Liverpool. Also (12) on authority of Mr. 

 Aiton's list of i)lants in Cartmell and Furness; who re- 

 ports it in "Plumpton woods," — planted woods I suppose. 

 It is often seen solitary, or by very few examples toge- 

 ther, but still looking as if native, not planted. 



365. Pyrus Aria, vol. i. p. 367. 



Province (9) may be added in the naturalized area, on 

 authorit}'^ of the Flora of Liverpool; the species occiu'- 

 ring " in woods and hedges in Wirral [Cheshire] and 

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