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leaves not compound pin- 

 nate, but broadly ovate 

 andlobed, white tomentose 

 below ; buds bordered 

 brown and large, especi- 

 ally the end one. Fruits 

 small, fleshy and red, 

 spotted. 



Pyrus Aria, L. White Beam. The general colour 

 of the branches is slate-grey with large and prominent 

 lenticels, even on the older ones. The fissuring of the 

 bark is very shallow, and the twigs tend to be upturned 

 at the ends. Crown often ovoid, the branches straight 

 and robust; the tree produces suckers. 



Pyrus torminalis is somewhat similar, but the leaves are 

 more lobed and not so white, the twigs slightly angular 

 (see Populus alba, p. 187). The tree produces suckers. 



8 8 General hue of branches and 

 stem reddish to purplish-brown, 

 or pure brown. 



A Shoots remarkably slender, 

 more or less pendent, and 

 densely crowded with imbri- 

 cated small grey-green scale- 

 like leaves, giving the tree a 

 peculiarly feathery appear- 

 ance. Branches purple-brown 

 or reddish. Flowers small, 

 pink, in dense spikes: fruits 

 capsular, seeds comose. 



Tamarix gallica, L. Tamarisk. May reach 20 30 

 feet as a bushy tree, or may be a mere bush 6 10 feet 

 high. Often near the sea. Twigs smooth and finely 

 striate ; branches slender, reddish, and often long and 

 withe-like or curved, dark grey-brown, olive, and purple- 



