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WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. 
coarsely toothed or cut into lobes, the upper side smooth, and the 
lower side clothed with white cottony down, the almost straight 
nerves strongly marked. The white flowers, which appear in May 
or June, are only half an inch across, and gathered into loose 
clusters. They are succeeded by nearly round scarlet fruits, half 
White Beam. 
A, fruits. 
an inch in diameter, known in Lancashire and Westmoreland 
as Chess-apples. The tree is also known in the same districts 
as Sea Owler, the latter word, according to Prior, being a 
corruption of Aller or Alder, probably from the resemblance of 
the plaited leaves to those of Alims glutinosa. These Chess- 
apples are verj' sharp and rough to the taste, but when kept 
