. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. 476. Prunns Persica. light colored (.sometimes white), the akenes not sunk in the flesh. Cool woods; common North. r. Virgini^na, Duch. Common field straw- berry. Fig. 475. Stronger, darker green, loose- hairy, the leaves with more sunken veins and larger and firmer: flower-cluster slender but not overtopping the leaves, in fruit with drooping pedicels: fruit globular or broad-conical, with akenes sunk in the flesh, light colored. Very 475. Fragaiia Virginiana. common. F. CMlo^nsis, Duch. Garden strawberry. Fig. 204. Low and spread- ing but sto
. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. 476. Prunns Persica. light colored (.sometimes white), the akenes not sunk in the flesh. Cool woods; common North. r. Virgini^na, Duch. Common field straw- berry. Fig. 475. Stronger, darker green, loose- hairy, the leaves with more sunken veins and larger and firmer: flower-cluster slender but not overtopping the leaves, in fruit with drooping pedicels: fruit globular or broad-conical, with akenes sunk in the flesh, light colored. Very 475. Fragaiia Virginiana. common. F. CMlo^nsis, Duch. Garden strawberry. Fig. 204. Low and spread- ing but stout, the thick leaves somewhat glossy above and bluish white beneath, rather blunt-toothed: flower-clusters short, forking, the pedicels strong and long: fruit large and firm, dark colored, with sunken akenes. Chile. 5. PEtNTTS. Peach. Plum. Cherry. Trees and shrubs, mostly flowering in early spring: sepals, petals and stamens borne on the rim of a saucer-shaped torus, the calyx with 5 green spreading lobes and the petals 5 and obovate: pis- til 1, sitting in the bottom of the flower, the ovary ripen- ing into a drupe: leaves alternate. a. Peach and apricot: flowers solitary from lateral win- ter buds, visually appearing before the leaves. P. P6rBica, Sieb. & Zucc. Peach. Fig. 476. Small tree, with oblong-lanceolate pointed serrate leaves and sol- itary fuzzy fruits on last year's wood. China. The nec- tarine is a smooth-fruited form. P. Armeniaca, Linn. Apricot. Fig. 477. Leaves ovate to round-ovate, serrate: fruits solitary, on last year's shoots or on spurs, smooth or nearly 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 tcith a "bloom," the stalk short. P. dom^stica, Linn. Common plum. Figs. 194, 262. Small tree, usually with young shoots downy: leaves thick and relatively large, dull dark green, ovate, oval or obovate, very rugose or veiny, somewhat pu
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