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ROSAGEAE. 
CYDONIA. Quince. 
(Family Rosaceae). 
Shrubs or small bushy trees 
finally with somewhat flaking 
bark: deciduous. Twigs rather 
slender, somewhat fluted: pith 
small, pale, rounded, continuous. 
Buds solitary, moderate, sessile, 
conical-oblong, appressed, with 1 
or 2 exposed brown scales, the end- 
bud lacking. Leaf-scars alternate, 
small, shallow U-shaped, some- 
what raised: bundle traces 3: 
Stipule-scars rather small, elon- 
gated. 
Only a few winter-character 
references are to be noted:— 
Blakeslee & Jarvis, 334, 490, pl.; 
Bosemann, 50; Schneider, f. 171; 
Willkomm, 33, 45. 
The quince was placed tastnsen'ts 
in the genus Pyrus. In a syste- 
matic study of the anatomy of the 
Pomaceae, as the group of Rosaceae to which this genus be- 
longs is called, Burgerstein in volume 104 of the Sitzungs- 
berichte of the Vienna Academy of Sciences showed that the 
structure of its wood is intermediate between the pear and 
apple components—Pyrus and Malus—of that still complex 
genus. 
Twigs gray-woolly: buds glabrate. C. oblonga. 
