242 BIRD CHERRY 



elongated lenticels ; cortex 

 yellotoish and stinking token 

 bruised. Leaf-scar rounded, 

 nearly oval,mth 3 leaf -trace 

 bundles. 



Prunus Fadus, L. Bird Cherry (Fig. 125). Twigs 

 practically glabrous, or with traces of pubescence at tip. 

 Pith rounded, pale. The rather large, nearl}' erect, long 

 conic buds are about equal in size, and have numerous 

 brown scales with a paler margin, slight keel, and pointed 

 tips ; lateral buds appressed or incurved at the tips. Twigs 

 olive- to reddish or violet-brown to grey. Lenticels 

 evident. Lowest bud-scales polished brown, u^jper paler 

 and with traces of pubescence or matt. Dwarf-shoots 

 slender. 



>> Buds more or less ovoid- 

 acute, lunger than broad; 

 hud-scales closely spiral, 

 imbricated. 



^ Leaves convolute in bud; 

 buds small, 2 3 cm. long; 

 leaf -bases prom inent, leaf- 

 scar small and rounded. 



Prunus domestica, L. Wild Plum (Fig. 126). Young 

 shoots glabrous and devoid of spines ; twigs greenish to 

 brownish, smooth, with numerous lenticels. Buds conoid, 

 pointed, brown to dark grey, sometimes with accessory 

 buds ; bud-scales ciliate. Twigs red, or red and green, 

 passing to grey ; glabrous, slightly angular above. Dwarf- 

 shoots small and numerous, and, with the prominent leaf- 

 bases, giving the twig a nodose aspect. Leaf-scars small 

 and nearly elliptical, with three leaf-trace bundles, on 

 prominent leaf-bases. 



