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Prunus Nicra. BLACK PLUM-TREE- 
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Clafs and Order. 
IcosANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — 
Cal, 6-fidus, inferus, Petala 5. Drupe nux faturis pros 
Minulis, 3 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
PRUNUS nigra ; umbellis feffilibus folitariis paucifloris, foliis 
deciduis ovatis acuminatis, petiolis biglandulofis. 
Hort. Kew. 2. p. 165. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2 P- 993+ 
PRUNUS hiemalis; arborea; ftipulis fetaceo-compofitis = 
foliis oblongo-ovalibus obovalibufve, abrupte pro- 
miffeque acuminatis: pedicellis aggregate gia- 
bris: calycis laciniis lanceolatis ; frutt “fubovato. 
Michaux Fl, Bor. Am. 1.p.284? = = 
* cpap - - 
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Sagi a 7 
Descr. Stemarborefcent : ranches covered with a fmooth 
blackifh bark, afh-coloured on one fide; dotted with white 
warty excrefcences. Flowers precede the leaves, very fweet- 
{cented, grow in feffile 2—4-flowered umbels, which are fome- 
mes folitary, fometimes two together, and not unfrequently 
three, Pedicles red, warty, free from all pubefcence, half an 
Inch long; but lengthening as the flowers decay. Calyx in- 
ferior, red; tube top-fhaped: limb 5-cleft ; fegments narrow, 
glandular-toothed, patent. Petals 5s fuborbicular, concave, 
Yeined, white, with flefh-coloured claws and tips. Stamens 
Many ; filaments white, length of the corolla, inferted into the 
calyx: anthers yellow. Germen {uperior, oval, not filling the 
calyx: fyle afcending longer than ftamens: /ligma oblique. 
aves oval, acuminate, doubly ferrate, petiolated : pao 
having two glands near the leaf, and frequently a third Paco 
