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AMYGDALUS COMMUNIS. 



S TNO NT MA, 



THE ALMOND TREE. 



Amygdala (nuclei). Pharm. Lond, ^ 



Amygdalus amara & dulcis 



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Amygd 



519 



Gerard, Emac. p 



I 



y. Bauh. Hift. vol up 



I 



7^ 



' Rail 



fol 



445 



glabris 



ovatis, utrlnq 



Park, Theat, p 



petiolo imifque dentibus glandulofi 



acuminatis, fer 



515 



Varlet 



funt 



Hal, Stirp, Heh 



8 



« 



Amygdalus fativa. Bauh, P 



44 



putamlne molliore. 



4 



coque tendre, vel Amandier des Dames 



Amygdalus d 



Tournef, Lift, p. 627. Amand 



a 



fruit 



T, 



t. 



120. tab, c 



Bu Hamel Arh 



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X' 



SWE 



r 



Almond Tr 



^ Amygdalus amara. Tournef, Lift, p, 627. Amandier 



fruit 



amer. Du Hamel 



c. 



B 



Almond Tr 



Clafs Icofandria. 



Ord, Mono2-ynia 



to 



Lin, Gen, Plant, 619. 



EJ[, Gen, Ch, Cal 5~fidus, inferus. Pet, 5. Drupa nuce poris perforata. 



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Sp, Ch. A.foliis ferraturls infimis glandulofis, floribus feffilibus geminis. 

 THIS tree divides into many branches, covered with a dark grey 



bark, and ufually rifes from tv^elve 



fixteen feet in height: the 



leaves^ are elliptical, narrow, pointed at each end, minutely ferrated, 

 veined, of a bright green colour, befet with fmall glands towards the 

 bafe, and Hand upon Ihort footftalks : the flowers are large, of a pale 



numerous pairs 



tubular, 



red colour, without peduncles, commonly placed 



upon the branches, and appear before the leaves : the caly.. .. 

 and divided at the brim into five blunt fegments of a reddilh 



the corolla confifls of five oval 



convex petals, with narrow claws 



the filaments are about thirty, fpreading, tapering, of unequal length, 

 and ot a reddiih colour, inferted into the calyx, and furnilhed with 

 Jimple anthers : the germen is roundifh and downy : the ftyle is 



Ihort, iimple, and crowned with a round Itigma ; the fruit is of the 



, peach 



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