. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. 478. Prunus Americana. 47y. Prunus angustifolia. F. angiiBtildlia, Marsh. Chickasaw plum. Mountain cherry. Fig. 479. Smaller, the young growths 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 ; also in cultivation. Cherries: fla-ers in umbel-like clusters: fruit small and nearly globular, early-ripening, usu- ally without a prominent suture and '^bloom," the stalk slender. ' P.
. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. 478. Prunus Americana. 47y. Prunus angustifolia. F. angiiBtildlia, Marsh. Chickasaw plum. Mountain cherry. Fig. 479. Smaller, the young growths 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 ; also in cultivation. Cherries: fla-ers in umbel-like clusters: fruit small and nearly globular, early-ripening, usu- ally without a prominent suture and '^bloom," the stalk slender. ' P. C6ra8U8, Linn. Sour cherry. Round-headed tree, with flowers in small clusters from lateral buds: 480. Prunus Avium leaves hard and stifiBsh, short-ovate or obovate, gray- ish green, serrate: fruit small, sour. Europe. P. Avium, Linn. Siceet cherry. Fig. 480. Straight grower, the "leader" prominent in young trees, with flowers in dense clusters from lateral spurs: leaves oblong-ovate, dull and soft, on the voung growths hanging : fruit usually rather large, sweet. Europe. aaaa. Wild cherries, with small, scarcely edible fruits: flowers umbellate or racemed. P. Pennsylvdnicum, Linn. Wild red cherry. Pin or bird cherry. Small tree, 20-30 ft. high, with red-brown, peeling bark: flowers small, white, on long pedicels in umbel-like clusters, from lateral scaly buds, in early spring, before or with the leaves: fruit very small, globose, red, smooth, with thin, sour flesh. P. Virginiana, Linn. Choke cherry. Small tree or shrub, 5-20 ft., with grayish spotted bark: leaves thin, oval or obovate, abruptly acute at tip, sharp-serrate: flowers white, in short racemes, terminating leafy branches, appearing after leaves in late spring: fruit small, globose, red changing to dark crimson (nearly black), very astringent: usually found along banks and in thickets. P. serdtina, Ehrh. Wild black cherry. Tree 50-80 ft., with black, rough bark and reddish brown branches; leaves thickish, o
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