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become lobed, obtuse or even truncate .-it tin- top, "n 

 short ( 1 iuch or less) and thick pubescenl petioles, 

 very thick and conspicu- 

 ously rugose, and clothed 

 below with a dense tomen- 

 iiiin like tin- ordinary 

 apple leaf, which it much 

 resembles in color and 

 texture ( Pig. 50) : flowers 

 smaller than in /'. eoro- 



„>i, in. crowded in close 



clusters like those of the 

 common apple, and borne 



on short ( V % to :; , inch 

 long) , densely wh i t e- 



woolly pedicels. A rather 

 upright and stout-growing 

 tree, occurring from Min- 

 Desota ( Lake ( Jalhoun, 



JH>. 11. Mum,.) to Texas 



(Gillespie county. (',. 

 ■I> rtny) . Judging from thi 

 few Bpecimens in herbaria, 

 this musl be an uncommon 

 species. In fact, I have 

 >eeii imt three wild speci- 

 mens, as follows : Lake 

 Calhoun, Minn.. 111*. 

 Mann. (Cornell Univer- 

 sity ) : St. Louis, Mo.. HI,. 

 Torrey, and Texas, III,. 

 cultivated plant from several soui 



"Whatever value rm conclusions ma] ultimately be 



rii crab, 



Dept. Agr. I have the 



