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lanceolate to ovate, acute, sharply serrate, becoming nearly 

 glabrous above, 1-2 inches long; pedicels and calyx pubescent; 

 fruit less than one-half inch in diameter; stone rather turgid, 

 sub-orbicular. Prairies and sandy places, southern Kansas 

 to Texas and Tennessee. 



DWARF FASCICLED CHERRIES 



Prunus pumila Linn. — Eastern Sand cherry. A low, 

 straggling shrub, usually decumbent at the base, the stronger 

 branches erect, sometimes to a hight of 5-7 feet. Flowers 

 small, on slender stalks ; leaves long, oblanceolate, thick and 

 veiny, sharply serrate ; fruit mostly black, as large as a Morello 

 cherry, edible. Occurs along rivers and coasts in the northern 

 states. Not much cultivated except in botanical collections. 



Prunus pumila besseyi Waugh. — P. besseyi Bailey. 

 Western Sand cherry. A western modification of the preced- 

 ing, usually more erect, with larger, thicker, slightly broader, 

 more coarsely serrate leaves, the teeth being more appressed ; 

 fruit larger, on shorter, thicker peduncles. Grows wild from 

 Manitoba to Kansas, westward to California and Utah, and 

 eastward, perhaps, to New York(?). Introduced to cultiva- 

 tion as the Improved Dwarf Rocky mountain cherry. 



Prunus cuneata Raf. — Appalachian cherry. An erect 

 shrub, 1-4 feet high, often rather strict ; leaves oval, oblong 

 or obovate, obtuse or sometimes acute, at the apex, narrowed or 

 wedge-shaped at the base, more or less serrate, with fine 

 appressed teeth, rather thin, about 1-3 inches long, occasionally 

 as much as an inch wide; petioles 4-10. lines long; flowers in 

 umbels ; fruit globose, less than one-half an inch in diame- 

 ter. Usually in wet soil or among rocks. New Hampshire to 

 Minnesota and southward to North Carolina. Not known 

 in cultivation.* 



racemed cherries 



Prunus serotina Ehrh. Wild Black cherry. Some- 

 times shrubby, but often becoming a good-sized tree, with 

 fine close-grained wood, highly valued for cabinet work ; leaves 

 oblong or lance-oblong, usually taper-pointed, shining above, 

 glabrous or gray tomentose beneath, serrate, with short, 



*Prunus Pennsylvania Linn. — Bird cherry, Pin cherry. Though 

 belonging to a somewhat different section of the genus, this species 

 should be mentioned here. It is a small tree, with light, reddish bark: 

 oblong-lanceolate, pointed leaves, with margins finely and sharply ser- 

 rate; flowers small in fascicles, on long pedicels; fruit the size of small 

 peas, light red, sour, growing several in a cluster. Growing in rocky 

 and sandy woods, especially after fires or lumbermen have been through. 

 Atlantic coast to Rocky mountains, especially through Canada and the 

 northern states. 



