COTONEASTEK. PTSTTS. 
gular-acuminate, styles 1 — 3, fruit oval, nuts 1—3. — ^. C. mono- 
ffyna (Jacq.) ; 1. deeply lobed usually acute, jserf. ami cal. villose, 
cal. -lobes lanceolate acuminate, style 1 bent, fruit subglobose. — 
Hedges and thickets ; B. the more common form. T. V. VI. 
E. S. I. 
16. Cotoneas'tee Limll. 
1. C. vulgaris (Lindl.) ; 1. roimdish-ovate roimded at the base, 
flowerstalks and margins of the calyx downy. — E. B. S. 2713. — 
Pet. rose-colom-ed. Fr. small, pendidous, red. — Cliffs at the 
Great Orme's Head, Caernarvonshire. Sh. V. E. 
17. Mes'pilus Linn. Medlar. 
1. M.german'ica (L.) ; 1. lanceolate undivided downy beneath, 
fi. solitary. — E. B. 1523. — L. entire simply or doubly seiTate. 
In the wild state it is spinous. — Hedges and thickets in Surrey, 
Sussex and Cheshire. T. V. VI. E. 
18. Pt'rus Linn. 
1. P. communis (L.) ; 1. ovate sei-rate, flowerstalks corymbose, 
fruit turbinate, styles distinct. — E. B. 1784. — Germen woolly. 
Leaves sometimes obovate suddenly contracted into a long very 
acute point. — Hedges and woods. T. IV. V. Wild Pear-tree. 
E. I. 
2. P. Mdlus (L.) ; 1. ovate acute senate, fl. in a sessile imibel, 
fr. globose, styles combined below. — E. B. 179. — a. P. acerba 
(DC.) ; yoimg branches calyx-tube and imder side of the 1. gla- 
brous. — (3. to)ne?itosa (Koch) ; the same parts pubescent or woolly. 
—Woods and hedges. T. V. Crab-tree. E. S. I. 
[P. domes 'tica (Sm.) ; 1. pinnate downy beneath serrate, Jl. 
panicled, fr. obovate. — E. B. 350. — Fr. resembling a small pear. 
— One tree in Wyie Forest. — T. V. Service-t7-ee.'\ ■ E. 
3. P. ancupdria (Gaert.) ; 1. pinnate downy beneath serrate, 
Jl. corymbose, fr. (small red) globose. — E. B. 337. — ^Hillj- woods. 
Mountains. T. V. VI. Rowan-tree. Mountain Ash. E. S. I. 
4. P. fen'nica (Bab.); oblong doubly serrate near the apex 
pinnatijid below, pinna lanceolate oblong serrate, imder side white 
and downy, fl. corymbose. — E. B. 2331 ? P. pinnatijida Sm. , Scyr- 
bus fentiica Kakn, Fries. — Fr. scarlet. Lower part of the 1. often 
truly pinnate, the lobes becoming more and more combined as 
they approach the extremity of the leaf which is only deeply 
and doubly serrate. — Moimtains in the northern part of the Isle 
of Arran, Scotland. T. V. S. 
5. P. A'ria (Sm.); I. oral or oblong unequally and doublv 
serrate or slightly lobed towards the end nearly entire below, 
