. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. 476. Pranus Persica. beneath, rather blunt-toothed: flower-clusters short, forkins:, the pedicels strong and long: fruit large and firm, dark colored, with sunken akenes. Chile. /%. _-=, spring: sepals, petals and stamens borne on the rim of a saucer-shaped torus, the calyx with 5 green spreading lobes and the petals n and obovate: pis- til 1, sitting in the bottom of the flower, the ovary ripen- ing into a drupe: leaves alternate. a. Pencil and apricot: flowers solitary from lateral win- ter buds, usualli/ appearituj before the leaves. P. Pers
. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. 476. Pranus Persica. beneath, rather blunt-toothed: flower-clusters short, forkins:, the pedicels strong and long: fruit large and firm, dark colored, with sunken akenes. Chile. /%. _-=, spring: sepals, petals and stamens borne on the rim of a saucer-shaped torus, the calyx with 5 green spreading lobes and the petals n and obovate: pis- til 1, sitting in the bottom of the flower, the ovary ripen- ing into a drupe: leaves alternate. a. Pencil and apricot: flowers solitary from lateral win- ter buds, usualli/ appearituj before the leaves. P. Persica, Sieb. & Zucc. Peach. Fig. 470. Snuill iiLf, with oblong-lanceolate pointed serrate leaves and sol- itary fuzzy fruits on last year's wood. China. The nec- tarine is a smooth-fruited form. P. Armeniaca, Linn. Apricot. Fig. 477. Leaves ovate to round-ovate, serrate: fruits solitary, on last year's shoots or on spurs, smooth or nearly so. China. aa. Plums: flowers i)i umbel-like clusters: fruit large and smooth, usuulli/ with ft distinct suture for "crease") on one side and corered with a " li/num ," the stalk short. P. dom^stica, Linn. Common plum. Figs. 194, 202. SnuiU tree, usually Willi young shoots downy: leaves thick and relatively large, dull dark green, ovate, oval or obovate, very rugose or veiny, somewhat pubescent beneath, coarsely and unevenly serrate: flowers large: fruits various, usually thick- nieated an<l willi heavy "; Europe, Asia. P. Americ&na, Marsh. Wild plum of the North. V\ti. 17m. Twi^t'y small tn-f, often thorny, the young shoots usually not downy: leaves ol)o-. 477. Pninus Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York Macmillan
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