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REMARKS ON PYRUS COMMUNIS oc. CORDATA Dnsv. 
By T. R. Arcuer Briaes, F.L.S. 
I nave a tree of Pyrus cordata Desy. Lond. Cat. ed. 8, Briggsit 
‘ y me fro eeds of 
fruits gathered late in the year 1875 from ae oti oho! in the 
hedge between Thornbury and Common Wood, whence I have in 
past years obtained and distributed through London Bot. Ex. Club 
a number of ssbeomens of this Pee Another of the three plants 
I too in the spring of 1879, when it was planted in the 
Arboretum eye but I have not since woke whether it has 
iven or not; possibly after poodine this some London or _ Kew 
ears from the one in which the seed Sey ; "9 
however, Bon produced only three or SOUL © cymes. 
elevation than t where the parent bush grows, which is 
—; hedge. es leaves and flowers of my tree are somewhat 
an in the wild one, coming of course in these respects 
n. 
across, and have white pera with a less dense and shorter coating 
of woolly hairs on the cal yx. The cymes retain fully as race- 
mose-like arrangement of the een I hope my tree will pro- 
duce some fruits which, from their being so very small and 
pecu uliar the wild bushes, dela furnish an interesting and 
important point for compariso 
ince my ‘Flora of Ph oath’ was published I ah ascertained 
ird place i 
station lying between Thornbury and Common Wood, and nearly 
one mile from that of Coleridge Lane (Fl. Plym. pp. 146, 891). 
Here it was first detected last year by my nephew, F. J. Briggs: 
when there were two or three low ‘ches in the ri itself, and some 
— of smaller ones on and about it, these latter bushes extending 
rruptedly for about 16 yds. on the road-side of the bank, and 
- wh ; 
‘In the case of the Coleridge bushes, I assign them to the so-called 
P. cordata, without haying seen flowers. A tendency to readily 
<a suckers belongs to this pear. The great similarity of its 
