ORD. XXVIII. Pomacee: 511 
AMYGDALUS. PERSICA. COMMON PEACH TREE. 
SYNONYMA. Persica. Pharm. Dale. 301. Alston. ti. 365. 
Geoff. iii. 798. Lewis. 483. Edinb. New Dispens. 249. 
Murray. iii. 241. Bergius. 413. Persica Malus. Gerard. Emac. 
1447. Park. Parad. 580. Raii, Hist.1515. Du Hamdl. Arb. 
fruit. T. ti. t. i on | 
Tedsdinatn Monogyiita: | Lin. Gen. Plant. 6 19, 
Gen. Ch. fa. 5-fidus, inferus, Pet.5. Drupa nuce poris perforata: 
Sp. Ch.. A. foliorum oe omnibus acutis, floribus sessilibus. 
solitariis. Se: & "| 
THE common Peach-tree aTows to a considerable figicht, and 
sends off numerous spreading branches. Leaves long, narrow,. - 
pointed, elliptical, acutely serrated, ‘on footstalks, alternate. 
Flowers sessile, purplish, solitary, large. Calyx tubular, divided 
at the margin ‘into five ovate segments, and at the base beset with 
numerous scales. Petals five, inversely ovate, get E attached. 
by short claws. Filaments numerous, tapering a: 
calyx, furnished with purplish anth 
downy. Style short, simple, Seciitanted Dy a. ‘ound = 
Fruit too well known to require description. © = 
The varieties 40 this species are a, fructibus lipiicttioited Common 
Péach. aru us glabris, Shetecls % Sarepleno, 7 double-. 
flowered. Peachtree. es eee sie 
It is not known of wineries ace | isa native, but it was. 
cultivated here in the time of Turner, 1562, and probably long 
before that. period. From the name Persica, it may be supposed, , 
to have been brought from Persia; but this is conjecture, nor is 
it ascertained to be the — pnax of Dioscorides, Or Mego of. 
sae 
Thedphrastes. 2 25 mR 2 ee, — 
