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156 those of Pyrus intermedia, except that the lobes are triangular pointed, and not rounded as in that species, the sinuses never being acute at their bases.

Var. semilobata (Bechstein). Leaves oval or elliptic oval, acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, lobes sharply cuspidate.

In summer the leaves are distinguishable from those of Pyrus intermedia by the characters of the lobes and sinuses; while broad-leaved forms differ from Pyrus torminalis in being tomentose beneath, the lobes never being so long as in that species. The tomentum wears off the under surface of the leaf towards the end of the season, and is never so dense or so persistent as in intermedia. On Plate 44 figures are given of leaves from wild trees occurring at Symond's Yat (Fig. 9) and Minehead (Fig. 11), and from a cultivated tree at Kew (Fig. 12). In winter a tree cultivated at Kew showed the following characters, represented in Plate 45.

Twigs: long shoots, shining, round, glabrous, except for a little pubescence near the tip; lenticels numerous as oval prominent warts; leaf-scars set somewhat obliquely on prominent, often greenish cushions; crescentic with three bundle dots, of which the central one is the largest. Terminal bud oval, much larger than the side buds, which come off the twigs at a very acute angle, with their apices bent inwards. All the buds are viscid, pubescent at the tip, and composed of oval scales, which are keeled on the back, ciliate in margin, and short-pointed at the tip. Short shoots ringed, slightly pubescent, ending in a terminal bud. In the specimens examined the leaf-scar at the base of the terminal bud had acute lateral lobes not observed in other species of Pyrus; but these are probably not always present.

The tree was first discovered in the forest of Fontainebleau, and was described by Valliant as "Cratægus folio subrotundo, serrato, et laciniato."

Duhamel du Monceau gave a figure of the leaf in his classic work. The distribution on the Continent of the type, and of the forms allied to it, has been given above.

In England a small tree, of somewhat rare occurrence, grows wild in woods