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appear, are coated with hoary tomentum, which clothes above, coated with pale tomentum below, an inch 



the under surface of the unfolding leaves, their petioles and a half to two inches long and about an inch 



and the stalks and branches of the inflorescence. The wide, with slender petioles an inch and a half to 



leaves are broadly ovate, coarsely glandular-serrate, nar- two inches in length ; in the autumn they fall without 



Fig. 3g. — Pyrus betulitblia. — See page 224. 



rowed into long apical points and rounded or abruptly 

 wedge-shaped at the base ; they are covered at first, on 

 the upper surface, with pale, silvery hairs, and ultimate- 

 ly they are thick, subcoriaceous, green, very lustrous 



any marked change of color. The flowers are produced 

 in the greatest profusion in early May, when the leaves are 

 about half-grown, on short, lateral, spur-like, branchlets in 

 stout, many-flowered, leafy racemes, and are borne on 



