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 Fruit 



Form 



Bark 



Lenticels 



Buds 



Leaf Scar 

 Leaf 



PENNYPACKER— ON THE BEACH PLUM 



Ripening August 25 to September 15, of a dark red color, 

 spherical or slightly flattened at the blossom end, 16 x 15 

 mm. covered with a light waxen bloom, flecked with nu- 

 merous light colored spots; weight 2.40 to 3.0 grams, 

 flesh of a watery reddish yellow color; pulp free from the 

 stone, taste sweet, tannin less abundant than before; 

 stone oval, compressed, reddish in color, 12.5 mm. long 

 and 9.5 x 6.5 mm. thick, weight .40 to .50 grams, acutely 

 ridged on the ventral, sUghtly grooved on the dorsal suture. 



7. Primus maritima var. rubra parva 

 (Small Red) 

 A low spreading bush 3 to 6 feet high forming dense thicket 

 like patches, branching rather regular and erect, with 

 few spine-like lateral branches; bushes frequently appear 

 gnarled and stunted in their habit of growth. 

 Old stem slender elongate, rough, cracked into thin dark 

 gray plates which tend to persist, mostly lichen covered. 

 Young branches smooth, dark purplish brown with few 

 light colored lenticels, and few spine-like lateral branches. 

 Youngest twigs smooth, numerous, elongate, slender, 

 puberulous; epidermis silvery gray, persistent, when shed 

 uncovers a light reddish brown bark. 



Few, small, inconspicuous, irregularly distributed over 

 the branches, rounded and more elevated on the younger 

 twigs, darker and more flattened on the young branches. 

 Alternate, conical shaped, sharp pointed, brown to gray, 

 covered with numerous triangular scales, puberulous along 

 the margins; covered with a silvery gray epidermis which 

 is shed in early spring. 



Flower buds more precocious in early spring, chestnut 

 brown, rather abundantly scattered along the twigs, fre- 

 quently compounded with a single leaf bud. 

 Leaf Buds smaller, more pointed, dark gray and terminal, 

 bursting after the bush is in full bloom. 

 Crescent shaped, with three small inconspicuous fibro- 

 vascular bundle scars. 



Ovate, alternate, 2.0 cms. wide, 4.5 cms. long, petiole 

 0.9 cms. long and finely pubescent, acute, finely and sharply 

 serrate with small dark brown glandular tipped teeth; 



