NATIVE CRABS 



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large, firm in texture and white - pubescent beneath, on 

 stout and rather thick, pubescent petioles (1 to 1% 

 inches long) , various in shape : those in the flower- 

 clusters are oblong and blunt and marked above the 

 middle by notches, while the mature leaves range from 

 elliptic -oblong to ovate- 

 oblong, and are irregu- 

 larly and mostly bluntly- 

 toothed, and bearing a 

 few nothes or right- 

 angled lobes or teeth 



Fig. 46. Leaves of Pyrus loensis. 



(See Fig. 46) ; flowers nearly or quite as large as in 

 P. coronaria, on rather slender but white -pubescent 

 pedicels an inch or so long (Fig. 47). A small tree, 

 growing in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Mis- 

 souri and Kansas.. The fruit is characteristically dif- 

 ferent from that of Pyrus coronaria, and these differ- 

 ences are well shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tions. The fruits of this species (Fig. 48) are oblong, 

 dull, rather heavy green, with many light -colored dots 

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