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PYRUS salicifolia. 
Wrllow-leaved Pear-tree. 
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ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacem. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. I. Germen simplex, in- 
ferum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multiloculare. 
Arbores aut frutices. POMACER. “ 
PYRUS. Cal. 5-dentatus. Petala subrotunda. Pomum clausum 
5-loculare, putamine cartilaginea. Loculi dispermi. Testa cartilaginea. 
Arbores v. arbuscule (Europe Asie et Americe septentrionalis). Folia 
simplicia v. composita serrata. Cymex patenfes, terminales, multiflore. 
Bractex subulate, decidue. Petala subrotunda, patentia, v. erecta, tum 
concava, conniventia. Styli glabri v. basi lanati, liberi v. partim coherentes, 
Lindley pomac, in trans, linn. soc. 13. 97. ; 
ee a eee 
Div. I. Folia simplicia. 
P. salicifolia, foliis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque acutis subcrenulatis pubes- 
centi-canis, floribus corymbosis. Marsch. a bieb. flor. taur. caue. 1. 390. 
Pyrus salicifolia. Linn. suppl. 255. Pail. it. 3. 734. t. N. fig. 3. Pail. 
ross. 1. 20. t. 9. Hort. Kew. 2. 176. ed. 2. 3. 210. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 
1020. enum. 1. 527. : f ; ; 
Pyrus sylvestris orientalis, folio oblongo incano. Tournef. cor. 43. . 
‘Arbor dumosa, orgyalis v. sesquiorgyalis, ramosissima, é@ radice suc- 
crescens. Truncus rard diametro sesquipollicart crassior, cortice tenui eatis 
cinereo-fuscescente subjissili, ligno albo uniformi durissimo ossee instar sub- 
stantie levigando. Rami extremi rigidi recti epidermide levi fusco-testacea, 
canitie quast obducta: antiquiores ramulis patentissimis spinescentibus folii- 
feris veluti stimulis infestt; juniores alternis obsiti turtonibus seu apophysibus 
TUGOSO-VETTUCOSIS é quorum apice folia et flores, queque in ramos crescere 
~ deinde pergunt. Fol. circa turiones quasi fasciculata, in spinescentibus ramis 
alterna sparsa, in petiolum attenuata, lanceolata, rigidiuscula, plerimque 
integerrima, passim versus apicem subserrata, tomento levi obducta, supra 
obscurits viridia, subtis glauco-canescentia, simillima SALICIS incubacex. 
Stipule 0. Pomum apice apophyseos foliose sessilis, plerumque solitarium 
(haud rard geminum) turbinaium subvillosum, basi cylindrqceo-atienuatum, 
supra rotundum, calyce et staminum rigescentium filamentis circa umbilicum 
cavum coronatum: sem, luteo-testacea, ovata, acuta, fine plana. Pall, 
ross. log. cit. ; 
On remodelling the genera in a late treatise on the 
natural group Pomacee, Mr. Lindley has not followed M. 
de Jussieu in detaching the genus Matus from Pyrus; 
observing that although the styles in Manus are united 
towards their base, yet that this circumstance is scarcely of 
even specific importance, since it occurs in Craraays 
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