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wliidi Led Desfontaine to call the species Mains sem~ 

 pervirens, "evergreen crab apple." Pyrus angustifolia 

 is thus characterized bj Torre} and Graj in L848, and 

 the description is excellent: "Leaves lanceolate-oblong, 

 often acute at base, dentate -serrate or almost entire, 

 glabrous, shining above." It is said thai the styles 



I ' '» ii Pyrut eoronaria from Pennsylvania. Nearly natural »l*e. 



in Pyrus angustifolia are distinct, while thej are anited 

 in P. eoronaria i bul this character does doI hold. The 

 coherence of the Btyles in all these wild crabs, as in 

 the apple itself, i-* verj variable, and it seems to me 

 to be entirely unreliable as a distinguishing mark. 

 Mi.-.- species have been confused Prom the earliest 



