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northern New Mexico (near Las Vegas, San Miguel County) ; and northeastern Utah (near 

 Logan, Cache County) ; on the southern Appalachian Mountains ascending to altitudes of 

 3000, and in South Carolina and Georgia extending to the immediate neighborhood of the 

 coast; in the Rocky Mountain region usually a low shrub forming large thickets. Passing 

 into the var. floridana Sarg., differing in its much thinner finely serrate leaves and purple 

 fruit. A small tree without root suckers; low rich woods near St. Marks, Wakulla County, 

 western Florida; common. 



5. Primus lanata Mack. & Bush. 



Prunus americana lanata Sudw. 



Prunus Palmeri Sarg. 



Leaves ovate to oblong-obovate, elliptic or rarely slightly obovate, abruptly acuminate 

 and long-pointed at apex, gradually narrowed and cuneate or rarely rounded at base, and 

 coarsely often doubly serrate with apiculate spreading teeth, when they unfold sparingly 



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covered above by short caducous hairs and below by long white spreading hairs, and at 

 maturity thin, light yellow-green and glabrous on the upper surface, pale and more or less 

 densely covered below with close soft pubescence at the south often becoming fuscous late 

 in the season, and villose on the midrib and primary veins, 2'-4' long and H'-2|' wide; 

 petioles slender, pubescent, eglandular or furnished with a gland near the apex, \'-\' in 

 length , stipules linear, acuminate, occasionally 3-lobed, villose, sparingly glandular. Flow- 

 ers about f ' in diameter, on slender glabrous pedicels '-f ' in length, in 2-5-flowered 

 umbels; calyx-tube narrow-obconic, puberulous, the lobes long, acuminate, entire or rarely 

 slightly serrate toward the apex, ciliate on the margins, puberulous and more or less tinged 

 with red on the outer surface, pubescent on the inner surface; petals oblong-oval, narrowed 

 and rounded at apex, gradually narrowed below into a long claw, about \' wide; stamens 

 about 25; style elongated, exceeding the stamens. Fruit on drooping glabrous pedicels, 

 ellipsoid, deep crimson covered with a glaucous bloom, often 1' long and f in diameter, 

 with thick succulent flesh; stone oblong, compressed, rounded at base, pointed and apicu- 



