. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 388 THE KINDS OF PLANTS. spreading lobes and the petals 5 and obovate; pistil 1, sitting in the bottom of the flower, the ovary ripening into a drupe: leaves alternate. a. Peach and apricot: flowers solitary from lateral winter-buds, usually appearing before the leaves. P. Persica, Stokes. Peach. Fig. 535. Small tree, with oblong-lanceolate pointed serrate leaves and solitary fuzzy fruits on last year's wood. China. The nectarine is a smooth-fruited form. P. armeniaca, Linn. Apricot. Figs. 6
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 388 THE KINDS OF PLANTS. spreading lobes and the petals 5 and obovate; pistil 1, sitting in the bottom of the flower, the ovary ripening into a drupe: leaves alternate. a. Peach and apricot: flowers solitary from lateral winter-buds, usually appearing before the leaves. P. Persica, Stokes. Peach. Fig. 535. Small tree, with oblong-lanceolate pointed serrate leaves and solitary fuzzy fruits on last year's wood. China. The nectarine is a smooth-fruited form. P. armeniaca, Linn. Apricot. Figs. 69, 536. Leaves ovate to round-ovate, serrate: fruits solitary, on last year's shoots or on spurs, smooth or nearly 535. Primus persica. so. China. aa. Plums: flowers in umbel-like clusters: fruit large and smooth, usually with a distinct suture (or "crease") on one side and covered with a "bloom," the stalk short. P. domestica, Linn. Common plum. Figs. 209, 289. Small tree, usually with young shoots downy: leaves thick and relatively large, dull dark green, ovate, oval or obovate, very rugose or veiny, somewhat pubescent beneath, coarsely and un- evenly serrate: flowers large: fruits various, usually thick- meated and with heavy "; Europe, Asia. P. americana, Marsh. Wild plum of the North. Fig. 537. Twiggy small tree, often thorny, the young shoots usually not downy: leaves obovate, dull green, abruptly pointed, coarsely toothed or jagged, not pubescent be- neath: fruit small, red or yellow, tough-skinned and glau- cous, the pit large and flattened. Common in thickets; improved forms are in cultivation. Including P. nigra, perhaps distinct. P. angustifolia, Marsh. Chickasaw plum. Mountain cherry. Fig. 538. Smaller, the young growth smooth and zigzag and usually reddish: leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, often trough-shaped, shining, finely serrate, cherry-like: fruit a small thin-fleshed shining plum on a long pedicel. Delaware, south;
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