ICOSANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Primus. 35!y 



/3. Cerasus sylvestris, fructu mininio cordiformi. Hoiv Pliyt. 25. 



Rail Si/n. 4G3. 

 Merry-tree of the Cheshire peasants. How ibid. 

 y. Cerasus sylvestris septentrionalis, fructu parvo serotino. Rail 



Syn. 4G3. ed. 2. 302. 



5. Prunus avium, Linn. Sp. PI. 680 ? hnth. 450. 

 P. Cerasus y. Huds. 213. 



P. nigra. Ehrh. Arb. 73. 



P. nigricans. Ehrh. Beitr.'v. 7. 126. 



Cerasus sylvestris, fructu nigro. Raii Sijn. 463. 



C. nigra. Ger. Em. 1505./. bad. 



£. Corone or Coroun Cherry. Mill. Diet. 



In woods and hedges. 



j6. In various parts of Cheshire ; Mr. Stonehouse. How. Also in 



Lancashire and Westmoreland. Ray. 

 y. On the banks of the Tees^ about Bernard's-castle, plentifully. 



Johnson. 

 $. In the midland and eastern counties. 



6. About Bergh-Apton, Norfolk, and in Hertfordshire. 



Tree. May. 



Branches round, with a polished ash-coloured bark, whose cuticle 

 splits horizontally. Leaves ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, pointed, 

 veiny, with copious glandular serratures, and at the base 2 un- 

 equal glands, sometimes removed to the footstalk ; the upper 

 surface smooth ; the under more or less hairy, especially about 

 the veins. These hairs disappear in the cultivated varieties, and 

 though mentioned by Linnaeus as the mark of his P. avium, do 

 not form a specific distinction. It is hard indeed to define species 

 ' or varieties in plants so generally cultivated, and so widely pro- 

 pagated by birds, and other natural or artificial means ; being 

 meanwhile subject to every possible accident of cross impregna- 

 tion. The flowers in all the kinds are white, on long simple 

 stalks, but few together, in umbels produced by different buds 

 from the foliage. Fruit almost globular ; in a, from which the 

 common Kentish Cherry is but one remove, red, acid, and au- 

 stere ; in /3 said to be smaller and heart-shaped ; in y small, 

 round, red, not ripe before September ; in ^ rather small, 

 roundish, black, and sweet ; in e larger and of a better flavour, 

 but of the same colour, to which its name from Corone, a Crow, 

 appears to allude. The leaves in every variety are simply folded 

 flat while young, by which Cherries differ from the Bullace tribe. 

 Stipulas and bracteas pale, with glandular teeth or fringes, deci- 

 duous. Nut hard, very smooth. 



*3. P. domesiica. Wild Plum-tree. 

 Flower-stalks solitary or in pairs. Leaves lanceolate-ovate , 

 convolute while young. Branches without thorns. 

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