. 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 . 2. PADUS Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. Trees or shrubs, with alternate deciduous leaves and small white flowers in narrow racemes terminating leafy branches of the season. Petals spreading. Stamens 15-20. Calyx-tube bell-shaped, with 5 short sepals. Style terminal, simple, the stigma flatfish. Drupe small, globose, red to purple or black, the exocarp fleshy, the endoca
. 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 . 2. PADUS Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. Trees or shrubs, with alternate deciduous leaves and small white flowers in narrow racemes terminating leafy branches of the season. Petals spreading. Stamens 15-20. Calyx-tube bell-shaped, with 5 short sepals. Style terminal, simple, the stigma flatfish. Drupe small, globose, red to purple or black, the exocarp fleshy, the endocarp hard, smooth. [Greek name for the European species.] of the northern hemisphere. Besides the following, 4 occur in the hwestern America. Type species : Prunus Padus L. Sepals deciduous ; teeth of the leaves slender ; shrubs or small trees. Fruit very astringent; leaves thin. i. p, nana. Fruit sweet, little astringent ; leaves thick. 2. P. melanocarpa. Sepals persistent ; leaves coarsely toothed ; large tree. 3. P. virginiana.
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