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A A Buds usually larger ', twigs much 

 stouter, rigid, not verrucose or 

 resinous-fragrant. 



^ Buds green or olive, the termi- 

 nal the larger, the few scales 

 more or less green and her- 

 baceous, with brown margins. 

 Leaf -scars with 3 leaf -trace 

 bundles. 



. Z Buds sub-globose, rather 

 large, 6 mm. or more in 

 diameter; bud-scales green, 

 herbaceous, with narrow 

 brown margin; twigs polish- 

 ed brown with prominent 

 lenticels. Leaf-scar semi- 

 lunate. 



Pyrus torminalis, L., Ehr. Service Tree (Fig. 121). 

 Buds globoid, obtuse, shining and nearly glabrous, not 

 appressed, and with no resinous secretion or marked 

 odour. The bud-scales broad and short, with scalloped 

 or bifid tips. Leaves conduplicate in bud. Twigs slightly 

 angular, polished, olive or red-brown, passing to purplish 

 brown, or grey. Lenticels numerous, pale and small. 

 Leaf-scar semi-lunate, with three leaf-trace bundles. 



ZZ Buds green or olive, fat, ovoid, 

 10 12 mm. in length, hardly 

 acute, with several leaf -bases 

 surrounding the terminal 

 one; twigs stiff and fairly 

 stout, not malodorous when 

 bruised. Leaf -scar crescentic. 



