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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



4. The Cherries^ (Fr., Cerisiers — figs. 480-482) have a floral re- 

 ceptacle of very variable form, a drupe, whose smooth epicarp has 

 no waxy bloom, while the mesocarp is more or less fleshy or fibrous, 

 and the stone is smooth or more rarely wrinkled. The leaves are 



Prunus Cerasus {Cherry). 



conduplicate in the buds, the flowers which arise before the leaves 

 or at the same time with them are in umbels or short racemes. The 

 northern hemisphere of both Worlds contains from fifteen to twenty 

 species.- 



5. The Cherry Laurels^ (Fr., Lauriers-Cerucs — fig. 483) have a 

 short obconical receptacle. The drupes, often not over fleshy, have 

 a smooth epicarp, naked or covered with a waxy bloom, and a 



t. 226-230.— J5oi!. Reg. (1839), t. 18.— Gben. & 

 GODE., Ft. cle Fr., i. 512.— HoxB., Fl. hid., ii. 

 499.— MiQ., Fl. lnd..Bal., i.p.l, 3()2.— Louii., 

 Fl. Cochinch., 6d. 1790,315.— 0. (Jay, Fl. Chil., 

 ii. 258. — H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 191, t. 

 5G4.— Walp., Eep., ii. 8, 907; Ann., i. 271 ; iv. 

 650. 



• Cerama T., hoc. ciL, 625, t. 401. — J., Gen., 

 310.— Lamk., Did., i. 686; v. 668.— Sri;., 



DC, op. cit,, 535. — Cerasophora Neck., Elem,, 

 n. 720. 



2 DC, Fl. Fr., iv. 479.— Gren. & Godb., Fl. 

 de Fr., i. 515.— SPACii, op. cit., 4-00. — Wall., 

 Fl. As. liar., t. 1 13.— Linul., Jiof. Reg., t. 

 1801.— C Gay, Fl. Chil., ii. 265.— Wali'., Rep., 

 ii. 9 ; Ann., i. 272 ; ii. 465 (part.) ; iv. (>51. 



3 Laiirocerasus T., Imt., 627, t. 403.— Pad«* 

 Mill., c.\ P]ndl., loc. cit., 0. 



