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ROSAOEAE. 



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, pi.; 

 Bosemann, 50; Schneider, f. 171; 

 Willkomm, 33, 45. 



The quince was placed formerly 

 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. 



