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FIG. 584. MEDLAR (Mespilus germanica). 



The fruit ;is a pome like that of the 



ae Apple, consisting of the ovary and swollen receptacle, crowned by f..e persistent calyx- 

 lobes which surround a dcnressed area. The tree, which is a native of Greece, Asia Minor, and IVrsia, has become 

 naturalized in the hedgerows of the Midlands and South of England, also in the Channel Islands. 



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