. 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. Alleghany Sloe 489. pointed, rounded at the base, slightly ridged on one edge and grooved at the other. The fruit is gathered from wild trees and made into pies and preserves. 3. GEORGIA SLOE —Pnmus mitis Beadle A small tree or shrub, with spreading or ascending branches, known only from dry soils in Georgia and Alabama, where it attains a maximum height of 8 meters and a trunk diame- ter of 3 dm. The bark is dark gray to
. 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. Alleghany Sloe 489. pointed, rounded at the base, slightly ridged on one edge and grooved at the other. The fruit is gathered from wild trees and made into pies and preserves. 3. GEORGIA SLOE —Pnmus mitis Beadle A small tree or shrub, with spreading or ascending branches, known only from dry soils in Georgia and Alabama, where it attains a maximum height of 8 meters and a trunk diame- ter of 3 dm. The bark is dark gray to reddish brown; the twigs are smooth, shining, becoming dark gray or brown, seldom producing spiny spurs. The leaves are thin, elliptic, lanceolate to obovate, 2 to 9 cm. long, sharply or taper-pointed, narrowed or rounded and 2-glandular at the base, densely hairy on both surfaces, especially so on the prominent venation, bright green above, paler beneath, the leaf-stalk densely hairy, 4 to 10 mm. long. The flowers,.ap- pearing before the leaves in late March, are about cm. across, in stalkless, 2- to 6-flowered umbels, on slender, smooth pedicels i to 2 cm. long; the calyx-tube is obconic, smooth at the base, its lobes triangular, blunt-pointed, hairy on outer, velvety on inner surface; the petals are obovate, rounded at the apex. The fruit, ripening in June and July, is oblong, i to cm. long, dark purple, with a bloom; the stone is ovoid or oVal, slightly flattened, about i cm. long, pointed at each end, especially at the apex, and ridged on one Fig. 446. — Georgia Sloe. 4. ALLEGHANY SLOE —Prunus alleghaniensis Porter Also called Porter's plum, and sometimes. Sloe, this is a local tree or shrub, being known mainly from a narrow strip of territory crossing the mountains of Penn- sylvania, known as the Barrens, extending through Huntingdon and Clearfield counties, where it forms extensive thickets and reaches a maximum height of 6 meters, with a trunk diam
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