. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 490 The Plums and Cherries are unfolding, are about cm. across, in nearly stalkless, 2- to s-flowered umbels, on slender, smooth pedicels about 2 cm. long; the calyx-tube is narrowly obconic, its lobes broadly oblong, blunt, and hairy within; the petals are rounded, white, fad- ing to pink; the filaments and pistil are smooth. The fruit, ripening in July or August, is globose-ovoid, i to 2 cm. in di- ameter, dark purp
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 490 The Plums and Cherries are unfolding, are about cm. across, in nearly stalkless, 2- to s-flowered umbels, on slender, smooth pedicels about 2 cm. long; the calyx-tube is narrowly obconic, its lobes broadly oblong, blunt, and hairy within; the petals are rounded, white, fad- ing to pink; the filaments and pistil are smooth. The fruit, ripening in July or August, is globose-ovoid, i to 2 cm. in di- ameter, dark purple, with a bluish bloom; the skin is thick and tough; the flesh is thick and pleas£intly acid; the stone is broadly oval, somewhat flattened, 8 to 15 mm. long, pointed at both ends, ridged on one edge and somewhat grooved at the other. The fruit of the Alleghany sloe is much gathered for local use, in the making of Fig. 447-AUeghany Sloe. ~ pies and jeUies. The wood is hard, close- grained, reddish brown, its specific gravity about 5. HOG PLUM — Pnmus injacunda Small Like its relatives, this is also called Sloe. It is a shrub or small, straggling, somewhat spiny tree of the granite hills of Georgia and Alabama, and is particu- larly abundant at the base of Stone Mountain, where it was first discovered. Its maximum height is 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The bark is thin, closely fissured, dull dark- gray to nearly black; the twigs are velvety, soon becoming reddish or purplish, and finally dull gray. The leaves are thick and firm, ovate to obovate, 3 to 6 cm. long, sharp or taper-pointed, tapering or rounded at the base, finely toothed with sharp, thin-pointed teeth, yellowish green, wrinkled and slightly hairy above, densely vel- vety, with the yellow midrib very prominent, the lateral veins less so, beneath; leaf-stalk stout, to I cm. long, and hairy. The flowers, open- ing in March or April, are in nearly stalkless umbels of 4 or 5, on slender, hairy
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