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A tree 12 — 25 feet high ; the trunk sometimes 6-8, and rarely 12 inches in diameter ; 

 the wood very hard. Leaves 2 - 2^ inches long, and seldom (except in the young shoots) 

 more than an inch and a half wide, light green, rather thick ; the veins very straight and 

 prominent underneath, conspicuously impressed above. Corymbs leafy. Bracts numerous, 

 subulate, glandular, deciduous. Segments of the calyx lanceolate, usually entire, but some- 

 times with a few indistinct teeth. Stamens about 20. Fruit half an inch or more in diameter, 

 somewhat eatable when ripe. 



Borders of woods, banks of rivers, etc. ; common in the western part of the State, but not 

 found below the Highlands. Fl. June. Fr. September. The broader leaved slates of this 

 species make a near approach to C. tomentosa. In the former the leaves are seldom lobed, 

 and never so deeply as in the latter species. 



17. PYRUS. Linn.; Lindl. in liort. trans. 17. p. 97. APPLE, PEAR, <fc. 



[ The Latin name for Pear.] 

 Pyrhs and Sorbus, Linn. Pyrus, Malus and Sorbus, Tourn. 

 Calyx-tube urceolate ; the limb 5-cleft. Petals roundish. Styles 5, or sometimes 2-3, 

 distinct, or often united at the base. Pome fleshy or baccate, closed : carpels 2-5, car- 

 tilaginous or nearly membranaceous. Seeds 2 in each cell ; the testa cartilaginous. — 

 Trees or shrubs, with simple or pinnated leaves. Flowers white or rose-color, in spreading 

 terminal simple or compound corymbose cymes. Fruit mostly eatable. 



^ 1. Malus, Tourn. Leaves simple, not glandular: cymes simple; the pedicels mostly umbellate : 

 petals spreading, flat : styles 3-5, united at the base : pomes mostly depressed-globose, umbili- 

 cate at the base : carpels cartilaginous. 



1. Pyrus coronaria, Linn. Crab-apple, or Sweet-scented Crab-tree. 



Leaves ovate, on slender petioles, rcninded or cordate at the base, serrate and somewhat 

 incisely lobed, finally smooth ; pedicels smooth ; styles united and woolly at the base ; fruit 

 small, fragrant. — Linn. sp. 1. p. 480 ; Ait. Kew. (ed. l.)2. p 473 ; Pursh, fl. \. p. 340 ; 

 Torr.fl. 1. p. 480 ; DC. prodr. 2. p. 635 ; Hook. hot. mag. t. 2009 ; Lindl. hot. reg. t. 651 ; 

 Beck, bat. p. 113 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 296 ; Torr. <^ Gr. fl. N. Am. 1. p. 470. Malus 

 coronaria, Michx. fl. 1. p. 292 ; Miclix. f. sylv. 1. p. 333. t. 65. 



A small tree 10-20 feet high, with a trunk 4-6 inches in diameter. Leaves when fully 

 grown 2-3 inches long, somewhat shining above, pubescent on the veins underneath : petioles 

 about half the length of the lamina, pubescent. Corymbs 5 - 7-flowcrcd ; the pedicels about 

 an inch long. Flowers very fragrant. Calyx woolly inside, smooth externally ; the segments 

 lanceolate, acute. Petals pale rosc-color, three-fourths of an inch long, on short claws. Fruit 

 dcprcssed-globosc, yellowish-green, \ - \\ inch in diameter, hard, very acid and fragrant. 



Borders of woods, etc. ; western part of the Slate. Fl. May. Fr. September. The fruit 

 is often used for preserves, and is also said to make good cider. 



