NATIVE (HAMS 



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large, firm in texture and white -pubescent beneath, on 

 stout and rather thick, pubescenl petioles (1 to 1% 

 inches long), various in shape : those in the flower- 

 clusters are oblong and blunt and marked above the 

 middle by notches, while the mature leaves range from 

 elliptic -oblong to ovate- 

 oblong, and are irregu- 

 larlyand mostly bluntly- 

 toothed, and bearing a 

 few nothes or right- 

 angled lobes or teeth 



Kit;. 18. Lean / / 



''''- " ;| : flowers nearly or quite as large as in 

 ; ' """<"■''". on rather slender but white- pubescent 

 pedicels an inch or so long (Pig. 47). A small tree, 

 growing in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, [owa, Mis- 

 souri and Kansas. The fruit is characteristicallj dif- 

 ferent from thai of Pyrus coronaria, and these differ- 



•'""'■ well -d" vii in the accompanying illustra- 

 tions. The fruits of this Bpecies (Til:. 18) are oblong, 

 ,i " 11 - rather beavj green, with man} light-colored 



