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Rail Hiji. p^ 1526. Prunus foliis ferratls, hirfutis, ovato-lanceo- 

 latis, floribus longe petlolatls. HaL Stirp, Helv, n, 1079. 



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Linn^o videtur Prunus frudu parvo dulci atro-caemleo. Tournef, 



Injl, p. 622, . - ,. . 



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Clafs Icofandrla, Ord. Monogynla. Lin. Gen, Plant. 620. 



Ef Gen. Ch. CaL 5~fi 



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tuns 



prominu 



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P. pedunculis fubfolitariis, fo 



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olutis, 



ramis 



Gemmce Jlorifercu aphylL 



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THIS fpecies of Prunus grows much higher than the former; It 



is without fpines, and covered with fmooth bark of a dark brown 



colour 



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leaves are oval, flightly indented at the edges, pointed, 



veined, of a pale green colour, and Hand upon very jQiort footftalks : 



the fl:ipul32 are "oval, pointed, membranous, and placed in pairs at 

 the bafe of the peduncles : the flowers are large, and furround the 



branches upon feparate peduncles : the calyx is divided into five nar- 

 row concave fegments, and befet on the infide with a number of 



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glandular hairs :* the corolla confifts of five roundiih white petals : 

 the filaments are more than twenty, tapering, inferted in the calyx, 



and furniihed with reddifh antherse : the germen is round, and fup- 



ports a fimple ftyle, which is fhorter than the filaments, and crowned 

 with a globular ftigma : the fruit is oblong, or egg-fhaped, confiftinp- 



of a fweet'fleihy pulp, covered with a dark violet coloured pellicle, and 

 including in the centre an almond-fhaped nut, or Itone. It is a native 

 of Britain, and flowers in April and May. 



Among the many varieties of plums "^ we find confiderable difli- 

 culty in referring with' fufficient accuracy to that called by the 

 London College Prunum gallicum ; it is therefore probable that fome 



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^ Du Hamel 

 aver (Pomona 



fruit. T. 2. -p. 



T. 1. p. iio.j 



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forty-eight varieties : and 



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The original parent of thefe varieties is not yet fatisfaaorily afcertained.— J. Baiihin 



refers it to the Pruna cerea minora praecocia. , 



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