242 BIRD CHERRY 



elongated lenticels ; cortex 

 yellowish and stinking when 

 bruised. Leaf-scar rounded, 

 nearly oval, with 3 leaf -trace 

 bundles. 



Prunus Padus, L. Bird Cherry (Fig. 125). Twigs 

 practically glabrous, or with traces of pubescence at tip. 

 Pith rounded, pale. The rather large, nearly erect, long 

 conic buds are about equal in size, and have numerous 

 brown scales with a paler margin, slight keel, and pointed 

 tips; lateral buds appressed or incurved at the tips. Twigs 

 olive- to reddish or violet-brown to grey. Lenticels 

 evident. Lowest bud-scales polished brown, upper paler 

 and with traces of pubescence or matt. Dwarf-shoots 

 slender. 



> > Buds more or less ovoid- 

 acute, longer than broad; 

 bud- scales closely spiral, 

 imbricated. 



^ Leaves convolute in bud; 

 buds small, 2 3 cm. long ; 

 leaf -bases prominent, leaf- 

 scar small and rounded. 



Prunus domestica, L. Wild Plum (Fig. 126). Young 

 shoots glabrous and devoid of spines ; twigs greenish to 

 brownish, smooth, with numerous lenticels. Buds conoid, 

 pointed, brown to dark grey, sometimes with accessory 

 buds ; bud-scales ciliate. Twigs red, or red and green, 

 passing to grey ; glabrous, slightly angular above. Dwarf- 

 shoots small and numerous, and, with the prominent leaf- 

 bases, giving the twig a nodose aspect. Leaf-scars small 

 and nearly elliptical, with three leaf-trace bundles, on 

 prominent leaf- bases. 



