. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 3. Prunus hortulana Bailey. Wild Goose Plum. Fig. 2411. p. hortulana Bailey, Card. & For. 5 ; 90. 1892. Pntutis hortulana Mineri Bailey, Bull. Cornell Agric. Exp. Sta. 38: 23. 1892. A small tree, similar to the two preceding; branches spreading, bark thin. Leaves ovate- lanceolate to ovate or oblanceolate, long- acuminate, somewhat peach-like, closely glandu- lar-serrate
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 3. Prunus hortulana Bailey. Wild Goose Plum. Fig. 2411. p. hortulana Bailey, Card. & For. 5 ; 90. 1892. Pntutis hortulana Mineri Bailey, Bull. Cornell Agric. Exp. Sta. 38: 23. 1892. A small tree, similar to the two preceding; branches spreading, bark thin. Leaves ovate- lanceolate to ovate or oblanceolate, long- acuminate, somewhat peach-like, closely glandu- lar-serrate, glabrous, 4'-6' long; petioles not l' long, usually bearing two glands near the blade; flowers few in the lateral umbels, expanding before the leaves; pedicels s"-io" long; calyx- lobes glandular-serrate, pubescent without and within ; drupe subglobose or short-oval, bright red, thin-skinned; stone swollen, not margined; bloom little or none. Indiana to Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Hog-plum. Apparently erroneously recorded from farther east, unless as an escape from cultivation. Garden wild plum. April-May. 4. Prunus angustifolia ]\Iarsh. Chickasaw Plum. Hog Plum. Fig. 2412. Prunus angustifolia Marsh. Arb. Am. iii. 1785. Prunus Chicasa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 284. 1803. P. IVatsoni Sargent, Gard. & For. 7: 134. /. .'J. 1894. A small tree, sometimes 25° high, the trunk 7' in diameter, the branches somewhat thorny. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute at the apex, serrulate, often rounded at the base, gla- brous when mature, 3'-S' long; flowers smaller than those of the preceding species, in lateral umbels, expanding before the leaves; drupe red, globose, 6"-9" in diameter, nearly destitute of bloom, thin-skinned, its stone ovoid, hardly flat- tened, both edges rounded, one of them slightly grooved. In dry soil, southern New Jersey to Florida, west to Arkansas and Texas. Wood soft, reddish-brown; weight per cubic foot 43 lbs. April. Fruit
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