[1159] The Chinese quince had been called by Thonin Pyrus sinensis. Lindley has unfortunately given the same name to a true pyrus.
[1160] Decaisne (Jardin Fruitier du Muséum, Poiriers, pl. 5) saw specimens from both countries. Franchet and Savatier give it as only cultivated in Japan.
[1161] Nyman, Conspectus Floræ Europeæ, p. 240; Ledebour, Flora Rossica, ii. p. 96; Boissier, Flora Orientalis, ii. p. 656; Decaisne, Nouv. Arch. Mus., x. p. 153.
[1162] Boissier, ibid.
[1163] Maximowicz, Prim. Ussur.; Regel, Opit. Flori, etc., on the plants of the Ussuri collected by Maak; Schmidt, Reisen Amur. Franchet and Savatier do not mention it in their Enum. Jap. Bretschneider quotes a Chinese name which, he says, applies also to other species.
[1164] Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ., i. p. 261.
[1165] Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la France, edit. 3, vol. ii. p. 236.
[1166] Boissier, ubi supra.
[1167] Orig. Indo-Eur., i. p. 276.
[1168] Heldreich, Nutzpflanzen Griechenlands, i. p. 64.