198 PEAR 



brown shades prevailing as they age. Bark deeply 

 fissured on old stems, and may incline to tawny or 

 brown. Branches long, smooth, with lenticels showing 

 as transverse lines. 



The only other trees with similarly scaly foliage are 

 the Cypresses and Thujas, which have dark, not sea-green 

 or glaucous, foliage, and are evergreen Conifers. 



The capsules and comose seeds remind one of Willows, 

 as also does the habit to some extent, but the leaves and 

 flowers are quite different, as are all the details of buds, 

 scars, spray, &c. 



AA Shoots, &c. not remarkably 

 slender, nor with scaly leaves, 

 nor plumose. Floxcers not in 

 dense spikes, seeds not comose. 

 Bark fissured with tendency 

 to scale on the ridges. Buds 

 small. Flou-ers rosaceous, 

 corymbose. Fruits fleshy. 



^ Croxcn elongated, oblong or 

 ovoid, the stem traceable to 

 the top. Ridges between 

 fissures, which are rather 

 deep, much cut into more 

 or less rectangular scales; 

 leaves glabrous, more or 

 less ovate, and not lobed ; 

 flou-ers white; fruit \pften'\ 

 pyriform. 



Pijrus communis, Jj. Pear (Fig. 95). The short branches 

 are numerous and tend to harden at the points to thorns ; 

 the elongated fruit narrows at the base into the stalk. 

 Crown long erect pyramidal. Suckers common. Branches 

 ascending. Shoots glabrous, more or less angular, olive to 

 yellowish-brown. 



