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PYRUS* spiria. 
Hybrid Sorb. 
ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Pomacrx, 
PYRUS. — Supra, vol. 6. fol. 514. 
§ Sorbus ; folia pinnata v. pinnatifida. 
P. spuria ; foliis pinnatis 3-jugis subtis hirsutis, foliolis ovatis crenatis : 
terminali majore, rachi superné glandulifera. Dec. prodr. 1. 637. 
P. hybrida. “ Mench weissents. 90. t. 6.” Willd. arb. 269. Sp. pl. 2. 
1022 : not of Smith. 
Sorbus spuria. Pers. ench, 2. 39. 
Mespilus sorbifolia. Pozr. suppl. 4. p. 725; but not Pyrus sorbifolia of 
Watson’s Dendrol. fol. 53. 
Arbor parvus, deciduus. Folia formd qudm maximé diversa ; crenato- 
serrulata, subtds tomentosa, nunc simplicia, oblonga, nunc pinnatifida, laciniis 
oblongis, nunc pinnata, 2-3~juga, cum impare majore, foliolis oblongis. Co- 
rymbi terminales, multiflori. Pedicelli calycesque tomentosi. Petala Pyre 
arbutifolit. 
This handsome hardy shrub is but little known, and is 
rarely seen in Gardens. Its native country is doubtful ; 
and it has been supposed to be the hybrid offspring of the 
Mountain Ash and the Arbutus-leaved Pear of North 
America. It is sometimes called Pyrus sorbifolia; but is 
by no means the plant figured by Mr. Watson under that 
name, which appears to be nothing more than Pyrus pin- 
natifida. 
It flowers in June and July, and is succeeded by a 
very small quantity of berries. It will grow in any cold, 
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* A Latin word, derived by De Theis from the Celtic peren, the name of 
the Pear-tree. Sorb is said by the same etymologist to be an alteration of 
the Celtic word sor, which signifies austere. 
