PRUNUS UMBELLATA 



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hortu- 



fruit- bearing merits with the Chickasaw and 

 lana plums.* 



The Alleghany plum is a small tree or straggling 

 bush, closely allied to Primus Americana, which occu- 



Fig. 36. Alleghaiiy pluui. Natural size. 



pies a very restricted range in the mountains of cen- 

 tral Pennsylvania. The species was distinguished 



*Since this account was sent to the printer, John K. Small has published 

 a new species. Primus injucunda, closely allied to P. umbellata (Bull. Torr. 

 Bot. Club, xxv. 149). It has an oblong, very bitter fruit, and grows on Stone 

 Mountain, N. W. Georgia 



