66 FOEEST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



104. Prunus angustifolia, Marshall, 

 Artrastmn, iii. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 103. 



P. Chicasa, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 284. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 680. Persoon, Syn. ii, 35. Nuttall, Genera, i, 302. 

 Nouveau Duhamel, v, 183. Elliott, Sk. i, 542. Torrey in Ann. Lye. N. York, ii, 194 ; Pacific R. E. Rep. iv, 82. 

 Sprengel, Syst. ii, 476. Audubon, Birds, t. 53. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 285. Spach, Hist. Veg. i, 397. Torrey & Gray, Fl. 

 N. America, i, 407 ; Pacific R. R. Rep. ii, 164. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 377. Roomer, Syn. Mon. iii, 58. Darlingtou, Fl. 

 Cestrica, 3 ed. 73. Darby, Bot. S. States, 299. Browne, Trees of America, 250. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 

 251. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 119. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina 1860, iii, 56. Lesquereux in 

 Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 858. Wood, Cl. Book, 328 ; Bot. & Fl. 102. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 148 ; Hall's 

 PI. Texas, 9. Young, Bot. Texas, 1251. Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colorado ; Hayden's Surv. Misc. Pub. No. 4, 33. Vasey, 

 Cat. Forest Trees, 13. Ridgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 65. 



P. insititid, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 146. Abbot, Insects Georgia, ii, t. 60. 



CerOSUS Chicasa, Seringe in De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 5:58. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 168; Companion Bot. Mag. i, 24. Don, 

 Miller's Diet, ii, 514. London, Arboretum, ii, 705. 



CHICKASAW PLUM. HOG PLUM. 



Probably native of the eastern slopes of the southern Rocky mountains, where it is found at an altitude of 

 7,000 feet, and of the high plateau east and southeast of them ; now widely naturalized by early cultivation 

 throughout the Atlantic forests south of Pennsylvania, and west of the Alleghany mountains extending as far 

 north as southern Michigan. 



A small tree, 6 to 8 meters in height, with a trunk, 0.15 to 0.20 meter in diameter, or often a low shrub; 

 generally along streams or borders of prairies, in rich soil. 



Wood heavy, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact ; medullary rays numerous, thin ; color, light brown or 

 red, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.6884; ash, 0.28; often cultivated for its globose red or yellow fruit. 



105. Prunus Pennsylvanica, Linnaeus f. 



Snppl. 252. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 992 ; Euum. 518 ; Berl. Baumz. 310. Abbot, Insects Georgia, i, t. 45. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 673. 

 Persoon, Syn. ii, 35. Nouveau Duhamel, v, 9. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. iii, 198. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 331. Nuttall, Genera, i, 

 302. Torrey, Fl. U. S. 468; Compend. Fl. N. States, 198. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 477. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 73. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed., 285. 

 Beck in Am. Journal Sci. 1 ser. xiv, 112. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 42. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 130. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. 

 Carolina, 1860, iii, 57. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 102. Gray in Proc. Philadelphia Acad. 1863, 61 ; Manual N. States, 5 ed. 148. Koch, 

 Dendrologie, i, 117. Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colorado; Hayden's Surv. Misc. Pub. No. 4, 33. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 2 ed. ii, 

 513. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 13. Macoun in Geological Rep. Canada, 1875-'76, 194. Bell in Geological Rep. Canada, 1879-'80, 

 54 C . Sears in Bull. Essex Inst. xiii, 176. 



fP. lanceolata, Willdenow, Berl. Baumz. 240, t. 3,f. 3. 



Cerasus borealis, Michaux. Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 286. Nouveau Duhamel, v, 32. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 159, t. 8; N. 

 American Sylva, 3ed.il, 152, t. 90. Seringe in De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 558. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 513. Beck, Bot. 

 97. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 703, f. 410. Roemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 78. 



P. borealis, Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 674. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 538. Eaton, Manual, 54. Barton, Compend. Fl. 

 Philadelph. i, 223. Nuttall, Genera, i, 302. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. 1. 1598. Bigelow, Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 205. 



?P. persicifolia, Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 205. 



? Cerasus persicifolia, Loiseleur in Nouveau Duhamel, v, 9. Seringe in De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 537. Don, Miller's Diet, 

 ii, 512. Spach, Hist. Veg. i, 411. Rcemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 81. 



Qerasus Pennsylvanica, Seringe in De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 538. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 168. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 514. 

 Beck, Bot. 97. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 409. London, Arboretum, ii, 705. Eatou & Wright, Bot. 189. 

 Torrey, Fl. N. York, i, 196. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 15; 2 ed. i, 165. Browne, Trees of America, 265. Emerson, Trees 

 Massachusetts, 1 ed. 451. Roemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 57. Gray, Manual N. States, 1 ed. 115. Parry in Owen's Rep. 611. 

 Richardson, Arctic Exped. 425. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 251. Wood, Cl. Book, 327. 



WILD BED CHERRY. PIN CHERRY. PIGEON CHERRY. 



Labrador, shores of Hudson's bay, and west through the Saskatchewan region to the valley of the upper Fraser 

 river (Soda creek, Macoun); south through the northern states to Pennsylvania, central Michigan, northern Illinois, 

 central Iowa, and along the high Alleghany mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, and the Eocky mountains 

 of Colorado. 



