FENTANDRIA TRIGYNiA. 



365 



A sTirub & 



Varies — a 



15 feet high, branches expanding, virgate, glabrous,- 



Corolla white. 



Cymes large, terminal, iiaKed. 



with leaves nearly round ovate, acute, glabrous j fruit 

 nearly round. V. dcntatum Pursh. 

 h} with leaves oval, acuminate, hairj underneath ; fruit ob- 



V. pubescens. Pursh. 



lonjj^. 



Grows more exclusively in »wamps, and flov;crs earlier than anjr 



other spec! 



in the low country. 



Flowers Maixh — April. 



(Mich 



3. Lentago. 



V. glabruni ; foliis lato- 

 ovatis, acuminatis, argute 

 sei ratis, petiolis margina- 

 tis, undulatis ; cymis ses- 



silibu 



s. 



Pursh, i.p 



Glabrous ; leaves broa(T, 

 ovate, acuminate, sharply 

 serrate ; petioles with 



waved 



sessile. 



margins ; 



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Sp. pi. 1. p. 1491. Walt. p. 116. Mich. 1. p. 178. 

 Sometimes arborescent. 



Leaves frequently oval, sometimes slight- 

 ly cordate, conspicuously acuminate. Petioles nearly an inch l»n"% 

 Merries black. ^ 



Grows in the mountains of Carolina and Georgia.- 

 Flowers 



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4. PRUNIFOLIUM. 



V. foliis obovato-sub 

 rotundis ovalibusque, gla 



tis ; pe 

 Sp. pi 



Le 



obovate, near- 



round and oval. 



bris 



gla. 



tiolis marginatis. 



J 



brous, sharply serrate 

 petioles winged. 



p. 1487 



Walt. p. 116. Mich. 1. p. 178. Pursh, 1. p. 201. 



A shrub 8 — 15 feet high, branches virgate, glabrous. Leaves acute^ 

 shining, finely serrate. A/i/?M/cs inversely heart-shaped, serrulate. Ci/- 

 mes large. Corolla white, larger than in our other species, and the 

 plant altogetlier ornamental. Fruit oval, dark blue, ratable, known 

 by the name of sloes. 



Grows in loose, dry rich soils. 

 Flowers April — May. 



4£ri 



Black-haiff. Sloe* 



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5. !N'UDUM. 



V. foliis ovalibus, sub- I Leaves oval, somewhat 

 rugoeisj margine revolu- | rugose, with the margins 



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