The Cultivated Native Plums and Chekeies. 101 



plant, appa/rently, which the experunent stations of South Dakota 

 and ^linnesota have described, and it is the one which has been 

 advised as a dwarf stock for oherries. 



Another and much rarer cherry is the one shown in Fig. 14, 

 and for which I have used Eafinesque's name, Prunus cuneata. 

 It gTows near lakes and about bogs, mostly 'in wet or stiff soO, and 

 is often found on hills and low mountains. I have seen it from 

 New Hampshire, ^lassachusetts, Rhode Maud, New York 

 (Illiaca), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin, 

 and Minnesota. It is an erect or even strict shrub with smooth 

 light-colored branches, growing from two to four feet high. The 

 flowers are large with broad petals, and usually stand out 

 squarely upon somewhat curved stems. The leaves are short 

 and usually blunt, obovate, spatulate or when full grown some- 

 times eUiptic-OA'ate*and becoming more or less poiuted, thin and 

 inconspicuously veined, the teeth few and the points appressed. 



" 4. A fourth sheet from Kialm, which is P. Americ:ana, as noted thereon by 

 Dr. Gray." 



The synonymy of the two species is briefly as follows ; 



Prunus pumila, Linn. Mantissa, 75. 



" 14. Prunus foliis angusto-lanceolatis serrulatis. 



"Cerasus foliis lanceolatis: glabris integerrimis, subtus caesis, ramispatulis. 

 Mill. ic. t. 89, f. 2. 



"Cerasus canadensis pumila, oblongo-angustoque folio, f ructu pai-vo." 



Hamel. arb. 149, n. 17. 



" Habitat in Canada. 



" Frutex statura Amygdaii nanae. Pedunculi proprii, uniflora, terni e 

 gemmis lateralibus. H. U." 



P. SusquhanfB, Willdenow, Enum. 419. 



"P. pedunculis subsolitariis, foUis obovato-oblongis, subtus glaucis, serratis, 

 basi integerrimis. 



" Prunus Susquhana3. Hortulan. 



' ' Habitat in America boreali. 



" Flores imperfectos tantum vidi." 



In his Berlinische Baumzucht, 2d. ed. 306, Wild enow revises his character as 

 follows: 



"Prunus Susquehanse floribus umbellatis, foliis obovato-oblongis obtuse 

 serratis, basi integerrimis, subtus glaucis. 



" Prunus Susquehanse pedunculis subsolitariis, foHis obovato oblongis subtus 

 glaucis, serratis, basi integerrimis. Willd. enum. 519." 



The German text which follows affords still stronger proof that Willdenow 

 meant to designate the plant under consideration. 



P. depressa, Pursh, Fl. 32. 



