LXXVI. EOSACE^E. 



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Almond. 



Seed 

 cut vertically. 



Cherry. (Ceratus vulgaris.) 



Almond. Open flower (mag.). 



Almond. 

 (Amygdalus communis.) 



Apricot. 

 (Armeniaca vulgaris.) 



Almond. 

 Open fruit, showing the stone. 



Stem woody, yielding gum, branches sometimes spinescent. Leaves simple, 

 entire or toothed, glandular; stipules free, caducous. Flowers $, axillary, solitary 

 or gemmate, or in a raceme, corymb, or umbel. Calyx deciduous. Petals 5. Stamens 

 numerous. Carpel solitary, very rarely several, ripening into a drupe ; [style sub- 

 terminal ; stigma capitellate ;] ovules 2, pendulous. Seed usually solitary by arrest, 

 pendulous ; radicle superior. 



PEINCIPAL GENEKA. 



* Amygdalus. 



* Cerasus. 



' Persica. 

 Pygeum. 



'Primus. 

 Nuttallia. 



* Armeniaca. 

 Prinsepia. 



[The two following tribes are omitted in the original j the first of which is 

 usually ranked as a distinct order. 



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