. 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. Choke Cherry 503 Hairy on young shoots, raceme-axis, and pedicels. Leaves pale or glaucous beneath, at least when old, and nearly glabrous beneath, except along veins. Leaves obovate, rounded at apex; drupe red. Leaves oblong to ovate or elliptic, obtuse to acuminate; drupe purple. Leaves densely brown persistent-woolly beneath, not glaucous. 6. P. Cuthbertii. 7. P. alabamensis. 8. P. australis. I. CHOKE CHERRY —Padus vir
. 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. Choke Cherry 503 Hairy on young shoots, raceme-axis, and pedicels. Leaves pale or glaucous beneath, at least when old, and nearly glabrous beneath, except along veins. Leaves obovate, rounded at apex; drupe red. Leaves oblong to ovate or elliptic, obtuse to acuminate; drupe purple. Leaves densely brown persistent-woolly beneath, not glaucous. 6. P. Cuthbertii. 7. P. alabamensis. 8. P. australis. I. CHOKE CHERRY —Padus virginiana (Linnaeus) Roemer Prunus virginiana Linnaeus As a shrub this is frequent on rocky soils, usually along banks of streams, from Newfoundland to Manitoba, southward to Georgia and Texas, rarely becom- ing a tree, of a maximum height of about 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The bark is about 7 mm. thick, slightly fissured, dark gray and of a disagree- able odor; twigs usually smooth, becoming light brown and finally dark red-brown; the winter buds are pointed, about 4 mm. long. The leaves are thin, ovate to obo- vate, 5 to 10 cm. long, pointed, mostly rounded at the base, margined with sharp, slender teeth, smooth on both sides, the leaf-stalk i to 2 cm. long, slender, grooved, with two large glands near the base of the leaf-blade. The flowers, appearing from April to June, are about 12 mm. across, in upright or nodding loosely-flowered racemes 8 to 15 cm. long, the axis and pedicels smooth, the latter 6 to 10 mm. long, the calyx-tube um-shaped, its lobes broad, blunt, reflexed and smooth; the petals are white, nearly orbicular, the fila- ments and pistil smooth; the style is short, thick, and abruptly enlarged into a broad terminal stigma. The fruit, ripening in July or August, is globose, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter, red, black, or yellow, shining; the flesh thin, juicy, dark colored and very astringent; the stone is ovoid, somewhat flattened, ridged on one edge, a
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