29. 
THE WHITE BEAM, 
Pyrus aria, 
Prats 4, Fia. 9. 
(.TS mealy whiteness has given the 
y! name of White Beam, or, in 
other words, White Tree—beam 
being the Saxon for Tree—to 
Pyrus aria: for its young stems, 
its leaf-stalks, and its leafy under 
sides, over their entire surface, are 
densely covered by white down. It is a 
a small Tree, often not exceeding a height 
of much more than twenty feet; but it grows 
erect, and forms a compact head of foliage. Its 
roots, too, descend to a considerable distance 
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