146 ROSE FAMILY. 



smooth ; fruits a half inch in diameter, deep dull purple, and very 

 glaucous, with a tough skin and usually acerb flesh ; stone cherry-like, 

 but distinctly margined, entirely free from the flesh. Cult, sparingly for 

 ornament and for fruit. 



4. FASCICLED CHERRIES, EDIBLE. Flowers usually fascicled or umbel- 

 late, stalked, usually appearing with the leaves, the latter conduplicate 

 in the bud ; fruit small and mostly globular, and nearly always smooth 

 and destitute of bloom ; the stone nearly or quite spherical and mostly 

 smooth. 



* Shrubs, native. 



P. pumila, Linn. DWARF or SAND CHERRY. A straggling shrub, 

 usually with decumbent base, the stronger branches erect, the plant 

 finally reaching a height, perhaps, of 6 or 8 feet; flowers small, on 

 slender stalks, with the leaves somewhat preceding them ; leaves long, 

 oblanceolate, thick in texture and veiny, sharply serrate ; fruit mostly 

 black, the size of a small Garden Cherry, varying from astringent to sweet. 

 Along rivers and coasts, in the N. States. Cult, for fruit and flowers. 



P. cuneata, Raf. A slender, upright shrub, with larger flowers and 

 short-obovate or spatulate, thin leaves, which are less prominently toothed. 

 Grows in bogs and other cool land in the N. States. 



* Small trees. 

 - Garden or exotic cherries, grown only for ornament. 



P. subhirtef/a, Miq. (or P. PENDULA). ROSEBUD, or JAPANESE WEEP- 

 ING ROSE-FLOWERED CHERRY. A handsome tree, with tortuous or 

 weeping branches, and very early rose-colored flowers in simple umbels 

 on slender hairy bractless pedicels, the calyx funnel-form and red ; petals 

 obcordate, notched; leaves ovate (or oblong-ovate on strong shoots), 

 veiny and slightly hairy below, prominently pointed and rather coarsely 

 sharp-toothed. Japan. 



P. Pseudo-Cerasus, Lindl. JAPANESE FLOWERING CHERRY. A strong 

 tree with much the aspect of a Sweet Cherry ; cult, from China and 

 Japan for its very large and pretty rose-colored double (rarely single) 

 flowers, which are borne in a stalked and more or less branching umbel- 

 like cluster, with large obo^ate, jagged bracts ; leaves large and veiny, 

 dull, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, with very sharp teeth or often even 

 jagged, and prominent toothed or laciniate stipules. Var. Sieboldi, 

 Maxim., differing in having the young growth pubescent, is also in 

 cultivation. 



P. semperf/orens, Ehrh. EVER-FLOWERING or ALL SAINT'S CHERRY. A 

 small tree with leaves like the Morello Cherry (those on the flowering 

 shoots smaller and more jagged), but producing flowers more or less con- 

 tinuously throughout the summer. These late flowers are solitary, with 

 conspicuous, glandular-serrate calyx lobes ; fruit small, red, and sour. 

 Probably derived from the next. 



- -i- Garden or exotic cherries grown chiefly for fruit. (Double-flowered 

 forms occur.} 



-. Flower-clusters disposed along the branches. 



P. Cerasus, Linn. SOUR, PIE, MORELLO and EARLY RICHMOND CHER- 

 RIES. GRIOTTES. A low-headed tree, with spreading grayish branches; 

 flowers in small clusters from lateral buds, mostly in advance of the 

 leaves, the persistent bud-scales small ; leaves hard and stiff, short-ovate 

 or ovate-obovate, the point rather abrupt, smooth, and more or less 

 glossy, light or grayish green ; fruit roundish, red, in various shades, 

 tart. v Eu. 



P. Avium, Linn. MAZZARD, SWEET, HEART and BIGARREAU CHERRIES. 

 QUIGNES or GEANS. Taller, with a more erect growth, and reddish brown, 



