WAUGH ON SAND PLUMB 221 



acquainted with /'. Watson* would seldom be troubled in separat- 

 ing tin-in in tin- field. With herbarium matt-rial alone, a ■ 

 doubt would I"- hi - " .<-. 



The sand plums are confused in Beveral trade Catalogues, and 

 in the mi: - who ought to k<-<-jt BUch things 



straight, with tin- Baud cherry, Prunus /•'■ • . and still more 

 seriously with the Utah Hybrid cherry, which Bailey Bupp 

 be a hybrid of /'. Besseyi and /'. H'<i'^>>,ii. This confusion is 

 entirely unnecessary, ami it is t<> be hoped that it will qui- 

 appear as soon tion can l"- fixed upon I 



The natural range "t" Prut seems to i»- quite eir- 



cum8cribed. Sargent locates it apon "sandy streams ami hills, 

 smith ami southeast Nebraska and central ami western Kansas." 

 A- a matter of fact, it< distribution within this limited range is 

 by m> im-: 1. In Kansas, where I have been entirely 



familiar with it, tin- Band plum is confined almost exclue 

 to the Bandy lands in the immediate valleys of the Republican 

 ami Arkansas rivers and their tributaries, although it i- found 

 n the Smoky Hill ami Kansas River valley 8. 

 Mason says: "Have not noted it east of Wabaunsee county.'' 

 Mason, "Variety and Distribution of Ka:i»a^ Trees," page 

 - commonly reported from Oklahoma, but 

 though I have frequently been as tar west a- Kingfisher ami El 

 I{"-ii«i, I have never seen it. Tin- dwarf sand plums which I have 

 frequently found in that territory, ami which I have sometimes 

 teen brought t<. tin- market, were of ti • Prunus gracilis. 



Still I think it probable that /'. /i iws in Oklahoma, at 



least in >"in>- of tie- western counties. This opinion i- strength- 

 ened by tin- introduction of undoubted varieties of this Bpecies 

 from the Panhandle of '; 



in Kansas, before their own orchard plantings 

 eame into bearing, used t<i find the sand plums well worth their 

 attention. In July ami August everybody for fifty miles back 

 from the Arkansas -ami hills used t.. flock thither to pick, and it 

 i improvident or an unlucky family which same off with less 

 than four or five but d for winter. Whole wagon loads 



of fruit wei scored, ami were sometimes offered foi 



in neighboring to* i 



fruit gathered from tin- wild •markal.lv tin.- 



