ROSACEA. Lee 
at the top. Segments oblong-ovate, serrated, very blunt. Petals 
firm, spreading very widely. 
In hedges, thickets, and on bushy slopes. Local and rare, 
except in the South of England. It occurs in the counties of 
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hants, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Bucks, 
Essex, Cambridge, Salop, Pembroke, Denbigh, Leicester, Cheshire, 
and Cumberland. 
England, Ireland. Shrub. Spring. 
This shrub bears much general resemblance to P. Avium, but the 
mode of growth is quite different, being a bush with numerous much- 
branched stems; the bark is redder, the leaves stiffer, more shortly 
stalked, shorter, generally not above 3 or 4:inches long, less abruptly | 
pointed, more finely and more unequally serrated, every second or 
third tooth being twice or thrice as deep as the others; the veins 
are also less downy beneath. Peduncles stiffer, and consequently 
not drooping. Flowers rather larger and more open. Calyx-tube 
more open at the mouth; segments broader, blunter, and serrated. 
Petals less notched. The fruit I have not seen, but it is said to be 
** subdepresso-globose, scarcely cordate, red, juicy, and acid.’”’— 
(Bromfield, Fl. Vect. p. 146.) 
Dwarf Cherry. 
French, Prunier Cerise. German, Sauerkirsche. 
This appears to be the origin of the Morello Cherry of the gardens. In its wild 
state the fruit is very small and acid in flavour. It is a mere shrub, seldom more than 
eight or ten feet high. The large white flowers appear with the leaves early in May. 
Section II.—PADUS. Torrey & Gray. 
Flowers in racemes terminating leafy branches, appearing after 
the evolution of the leaves. Leaves deciduous. 
SPECIES IV.—PRUNUS PADUS. Zinn. 
Prate CCCCXIITI. 
A large shrub or small tree. Leaves ovate or obovate-ovate, 
notched at the base, abruptly acuminate, cuspidate at the apex, 
finely and sharply serrated on the margins. Flowers numerous, 
in racemes which are at first erect, afterwards pendulous, and again 
erect in fruit. 
In woods and thickets. Sparingly but generally distributed 
throughout the kingdom, though possibly introduced in many of 
its stations. It does not extend to Orkney. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Tree. Early Summer. 
