200 PEAR 



leaves, a milky juice, and a grey-brown, coarsely fissured 

 bark, tending to scale on the ridges. Ailanthus glandulosa, 

 best recognised by its great tendency to fork dichotomously, 

 though the twigs are alternate, by the sharply marked 



Fig. 95. Pyrus communis, Pear. Bark (Irv). 



pale fissures in a deep brown bark, and by the long 

 feathery pinnate leaves. In addition there are the Lime 

 (see p. 204), and young Elms (p. 202), Oaks (pp. 2069), 

 Chestnuts (p. 210), Maples (pp. 185, 186, 2169), Willows 



