. 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. Botany. AMYGDALACEAE. Vol. 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-li
. 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. Botany. AMYGDALACEAE. Vol. 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 c
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