MR. W, W. SAUNDERS ON SOME WILD PEAES. 99 
depression, very short, cylindrical, slightly curved, and rather 
stout. Eye small, a little depressed, with the persistent calyx- 
segments short, blunt, and little apparent. Colour uniform 
greenish yellow ; flesh yellowish white ; flavour sweet and not very 
astringent. In the hedgerow of the paddock at Greenings. 
This is a very good pear when stewed, quite equalling in rich- 
ness some of the cultivated sorts. 
The fruit of the wild pear, as figured in the first edition of the 
' English Botany,' plate 1784, is given in the accompanying sketch 
(fig. 7). It is there called Pyrus communis. Since the publica- 
tion of that figure the species has been divided by botanists into 
two subspecies or varieties : — 
Var. 1. Pyr us py raster, Boreau. Var. 2. Fyrus acJines, Grent. 
The fruit of the latter is figured in the third edition of the 
' English Botany,' pi. 488, and copied in the adjoining sketch 
(fig. 6). The two varieties are distinguished by the shape of the 
