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PYRUS* grandifélia. 
Large-leaved Pyrus. 
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ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacex. § Pomacee. 
PYRUS. Supra, vol. 6. fol. 514. 
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Sect. Aronia Nob. (Adenorachis Decand. prodr, 2. 627.) 
P. grandifolia; caule erecto ramisque glabriusculis, foliis oblongis ob- 
ovatisve acutis glabris, fructibus spheericis calycibusque glabris, corymbis 
oligocarpis coarctatis, disco villoso. Lindley in Hort. Trans. vol. 7, p. 233. 
Frutex 4-5-pedalis. Rami erecti, fortes, fusci, leviter pubescentes. 
Folia magna, atroviridia, lata, oblonga v. obovata, abrupte acuminata, 
utrinque glabra, serrulata, supra glabra, glandulis coste paucissimes. 
Flores, pro sectione, majusculi. Calyces glaberrimi. Discus ef ovariw 
apex villost. Fructus atropurpuret. 
A very handsome hardy shrub, resembling Pyrus 
Chamemespilus in the general appearance of its ‘foliage, 
but far more beautiful than that. species. It belongs to 
the tribe of Pyruses, of which P. arbutifolia is the repre- 
sentative, and is the most valuable of all the species of 
that division which have lately been described. It grows 
to the height of 4 or 5 feet, and is quite hardy, expanding 
its blossoms about the middle of May. Propagated by 
erafting or budding upon the Whitethorn, or any similar 
stock. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, from a plant that had been received from 
* Pyrus is by the lexicographers derived from éwss, the Greek name of 
the pear; the « at the beginning being omitted by apocope, and an 7 
inserted in the middle. But De Theis, with much more plausibility, traces 
it to peren, the Celtic name of the pear; whence he says the Latins formed 
pyrus, the French poire, the Anglo-Saxons pere, and the English pear. 
