#3, 
which is completely identified with the latter by means 
of the species now described and the Prunus Brigantiaca 
of Villars. Cerasus, which differs from Prunus in the 
vernation of its leaves, will on that account be adopted by 
Botanists. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society. 
A middle-sized tree, with smooth branches, almost like 
those of the common Apricot, but more slender. Leaves 
stalked, oval, or ovate-acuminate, obtuse, somewhat rugose, 
with glandular petioles. Flowers fascicled, on short stalks ; 
calyx and corolla often in 6 parts. Fruit about as large as 
a common plum, dark purple, with a tawny, austere flesh. 
3. L. 
