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spino’sa. 
ICOSANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Prunus. 
Woodv. 85-Park. 1512. 1-Ger. 1311. 1—Matth, 265—Lonie. , 
i. 52. 1—Fuchs. Sree 1019—Dod, .805—Lob. ob:. 
595. 2-Ger. em. 1497.1 
Leaves, when expanding com the bud, coiled. Floweri rin 
buds producing no leaves. Linn, Calyx sometimes 6-cleft. 
Style crooked. 
Prunus communis domestica. Huds.—Plamb-tree. Common 
Plum 
Hedges, [probably from the bois of the cultivated. varieties 
accidentally dropped there, Sr. } T. April.* 
P. F gam in pebt em pnts pcre -shaped, slightly wool- 
y, coiled: brane 
E. bot. 84 ef aaa rane is @ Var. P. domestica.) 
Ss lar ge as P. domestica. Branches reddish brown, smooth, 
_ appearing like an outer cap. Flowers sbiied larger than those. 
of P. domestica. Sole straight. Fruit black ; but Mr. Relhan 
says sometimes the colour -wax. 
Bullace Plumb. Black Bullace:Tree. Hedges. T. April.t 
P. Fruit-stalks solitary: leaves spear-shaped, smooth: 
branches thorny. 
Fl. dan. 926-E. bot. 842-Sheldr. 73-Woodv. 84—Fuchs. 
404—Trag. 1016-F. B. i. a. 193—Lonic. i. 51—Blackwe 
494—Matth. 266—Dod. 753. 2-Lob. obs. 595. 1—Ger. ems 
1497. 5—Park. 1033—Ger. 1313. 1. 2. 
s spear-egg-shaped, serrated ; aeoaipes terminated by 
Leave. 
an excretory duct, the terminating one blunter and shorter. Leaf- 
Linn. | Styles sometimes 2 
Black-thorn. Sloe-tree. Scrogs. Hedges. T. Marc, April 5 
t loves a lofty exposure, and is favourable to pasturage. The v 
ricties have probably agate ‘from the red and white sina Ane 
either sown by design or accident. The cutee & nm plumbs are de- 
rived from this species, “The bark dyes yel 
e fruit is acid, but so tempered by a sweetness and roughness as 
not to be unpleasant, purticelatiy ee it is ocliaind by the frosts. A 
conserve is prepared by mixing the pulp with thrice _ weight of sugar. 
‘The bark of the roots and branches i is considerably styptic. An infusion 
of the flowers, sweetened with sugar, is a mild piinpllive, not improper for 
a 
‘his isnot well adapted to grow in hedges, because it spreadsits roots 
‘ee and encroaches upon the pasturage; but it makes a good dead fence. 
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