. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 538. Prunus anguatifolia. oblong-ovate, dull and soft, on the yourm growth hanging: fruit usually rather large, sweet. Europe. aaaa. Wild cherries, with small, scarcely edible fruits: flowers umbellate or racemed. P. pennsylvanica, 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,
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 538. Prunus anguatifolia. oblong-ovate, dull and soft, on the yourm growth hanging: fruit usually rather large, sweet. Europe. aaaa. Wild cherries, with small, scarcely edible fruits: flowers umbellate or racemed. P. pennsylvanica, 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. serotina, Ehrh. Wild black cherry. Tree, 50-80 ft., with black, rough bark and reddish brown branches: leaves thickish, oblong or oblong-lanceo- late, acute or tapering at tip, serrate with incurving or bluntish teeth: flow- era later than preceding, white, in elongated, drooping or spreading, termi- nal racemes: fruit deep purple or black (M in. in diameter) with a sweetish, bitter taste. 6. RUBUS. Bramble. Shrubs, usually thorny, the canes or shoots dying after fruiting, with alternate digitstely compound leaves: flowers white, in clusters, with 5-parted calyx and 5 petals: ovaries many, ripening into coherent drupelets. a. Raspberries: drupelets or berry separating from the torus. R. occidentalis, Linn. Black raspberry. Figs. 142, 290. Canes long and thorny, glaucous, rooting at the tips late in the season: leaves of mostly d ovate doubly-toothed leaflets: flowers in close, umbel-like clusters: fruits firm, black (sometimes amber-color). Woods, and common in c
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