APPLE 



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hoary or velvety beneath. Not blackening on drying. 

 Petiole not exceeding half the length of the midrib, 1 5 

 cm. Stipules subulate, downy, deciduous. Autumn leaves 

 brownish. 



Fig. 88. Apple, Pyrus Mains, p. 250 (D). 



Venation pinnate-looped and reticulate. About half-a- 

 dozen strong secondaries leave the midrib on either side 

 and curve forwards at about equal angles of 45 or so, as 

 if pinnate ; but they soon loop and become reticulate, with 

 secondary loops superposed between them and the margin, 

 the smaller veins ending in the teeth. Each pair of se- 

 condaries in mid-leaf about ^ | the length of the midrib 

 apart. Tertiaries leaving the secondaries at more acute 

 angles on the inner than on the outer side, and tending to 



