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translucent fruit, the flesh of which is soft, juicy, and more or less strinary 

 and very tightly adherent to the small, broad, roughish stone. It is diffi- 

 cult to separate some of the cultivated forms of this species from small- 

 leaved and weak-growing varieties of Prunus hortulana, but the two 



Fig. 6. — Newman. Sprays half size. Leaf and stones fall size. 



Bpecies'are easily'separated in a wild state. The zigzag young twigs and 

 trough-like leaves of the Chickasaws are characteristic, and are shown in 

 Fig. 6. The leaves are often very small, scarcely exceeding an inch in 



