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ROSACEAE. 



Maddenia. 

 (Family Rosaceae)/ 



Shrubs or small trees: decidu- 

 ous. Twigs moderate, rounded: 

 pith rather small, rounded, con- 

 tinuous, pale. Buds solitary or 

 collaterally multiple, sessile, elon- 

 gated-ovoid, with half-a-dozen 

 more or less pointed scales, the 

 end-bud lacking. Leaf-scars al- 

 ternate, somewhat raised, broadly 

 crescent-shaped, rather small: 

 bundle-traces 3: stipule-scars lack- 

 ing. 



On its general winter-characters, 

 Maddenia hypoxantha would be 

 taken for a species of Prunus 

 lacking the terminal bud as the 

 plums do, but with the peculiar 

 pitted marking of its bud-scales 

 shown by the common choke- 

 cherry of the Eastern States. Sev- 

 eral Asiatic species are known, of 



which one has been introduced to a small extent in this 



country. 



Glabrescent: bud-scales brown, pitted. M. hypoxantha. 



