. 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. 330 Vol. II. 3. AMYGDALUS L. Sp. PI. 472. 1753. Trees or shrubs, with mostly lanceolate serrulate short-petioled leaves, and pink or white flowers solitary or clustered at the nodes of the twigs of the preceding season. Petals spreading. Stamens 20-30, distinct, the filaments filiform. Style and stigma as in Prunus. Exocarp of the fruit mostly flesh}-,
. 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. 330 Vol. II. 3. AMYGDALUS L. Sp. PI. 472. 1753. Trees or shrubs, with mostly lanceolate serrulate short-petioled leaves, and pink or white flowers solitary or clustered at the nodes of the twigs of the preceding season. Petals spreading. Stamens 20-30, distinct, the filaments filiform. Style and stigma as in Prunus. Exocarp of the fruit mostly flesh}-, velvety in the following species; endocarp (stone) bony, deeply pitted or nearly smooth, ova! or oblong, pointed, more or less compressed. [Name said to be Syrian for the almond.] ol Asia, the following the type of the genus. About 5 spec. I. Amygdalus persica L. Peach. Fig. 2428. Amygtlalus persica L. Sp. PI. 472. 1753. A small tree, the purplish-brown twigs glabrous. Leaves mostly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3-5' long. 8"-i8" wide, glabrous on both sides, long-acuminate at the apex, usually narrowed at the base, finely serrulate nearly all around, thick- ish; petioles i"-3" long; flowers pink, ¥-2' broad, scaly-bracted; drupe subglobose, grooved, softly velvety, 1V-3' in diameter. York North "ida. April-May. Family 57. MIMOSACEAE Reichenb. Fl. Exc. 437. 1832. MiMos.\ Family. Herbs, shrubs or trees, with alternate mostly compound, commonly 2-3-pinnate leaves, the stipules various, and small regular mostly perfect flowers in heads, spikes or racemes. Calyx 3-6-toothed, or 3-6-lobed, the teeth or lobes mostly valvate in the bud. Corolla of as many distinct or more or less united petals, also valvate. 'Stamens as many as the petals, or twice as many, or x. distinct, or monadelphous. Ovary i-celled; ovules several or nuinerous; style simple. Fruit a legume. Seeds without endosperm; cotj-ledons fleshy. .-\bout 40 genera and 1500 species, mostly of tro
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