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become lobed, obtuse or even truncate at the top, on 

 short (1 inch or less) and thick pubescent petioles, 

 very thick and conspicu- 

 ously rugose, and clothed 

 below with a dense tomen- 

 tum like the ordinary 

 apple leaf, which it much 

 resembles in color and 

 texture (Fig. 50) ; flowers 

 smaller than in P. coro- 

 naria, crowded in close 

 clusters like those of the 

 common apple, and borne 

 on short (% to % inch 

 long), densely white- 

 woolly pedicels. A rather 

 upright and stout -growing 

 tree, occurring from Min- 

 nesota (Lake Calhoun, 

 Hb. H. Mann.} to Texas 

 (Gillespie county, O. 

 Jermy). Judging from the 

 few specimens in herbaria, 

 this must be an uncommon 

 species. In fact, I have 

 seen but three wild speci- 

 mens, as follows : Lake 

 Calhoun, Minn., Hb. 

 Mann. (Cornell Univer- 

 sity) ; St. Louis, Mo., Hb. Fi8 ' ' Mature leaf 

 Torrey, and Texas, Hb. Dept. Agr. I have the 

 cultivated plant from several sources. 



"Whatever value my conclusions may ultimately be 



