PEAR 239 



Buds ovoid, conical-pointed, the terminal larger, the 

 lateral ones unequal ; scales nearly herbaceous and keeled, 

 somewhat pubescent with white down at the brown 

 margins, and inclined to be viscid at the apex (see 

 p. 224). Not appressed. Dwarf-shoots strongly ringed 

 with leaf-scars, and with slight traces of pubescence. 

 Twigs maroon-brown passing to greyish, marked with 

 conspicuous, round, whitish or reddish lenticels. 



tfrf Buds brown, the scales not 

 bordered. 



Z Buds small and with few 

 scales, about 5 6 mm. long, 

 conic pointed and glistening 

 dark brown. Leaf-scar 

 narrow- crescentic. Dwarf - 

 shoots tending to be hardened 

 off at the points as thorns. 



Pyrus communis, L. Pear (Fig. 124). The Pear is 

 sometimes armed with thorns, the hardened spurs (see 

 p. 196). Twigs shining, olive- or yellow-red-brown, glabrous, 

 varying from tawny to greyish, slightly angular or rounded, 

 with evident lenticels. Buds equal in size, appressed or 

 not ; bud-scales acute ; glabrous, dark brown inclining to 

 red or black. The thorns are the hardened points of 

 axillary dwarf-shoots ; but the latter are often numerous, 

 densely ringed, and not thorny. Bud-scales ciliate, emar- 

 ginate. Leaf-scar very narrow, crescentic, with three 

 leaf-trace bundles (Fig. 59 g). 



Z Z Buds larger and ovoid, with 

 more scales, which are dry 

 and matt-broivn. Leaf-scar 

 semi-lunate or nearly ellipti- 

 cal. Dwarf-shoots with no 

 tendency to form thorns, and 

 usually with aggregated buds. 



