592 361. Prunus. 62. DRYADEyE. Pl.ex.cah 



Woods and hedges, also cultivated; tree; April. 



Leaves narrow at bottom; petals white, reverse ovate ; 

 drupes solitary. — Fruit eatable, but inferior in flavour, is 

 rendered better by exposure to frost. 



^. alha. Drupe whitish yellow ; plant small. 



Prurius sylvestris fructu majore albo, Rail Syn. 462, 3. 

 fVhile hullace. White bullense. 



y, rubra. Drupe red, austere. 



Prunus sylvestris fructu rubro, acerbo et ingrato, Raii Syn. 462,4. 



3. Prunus domestica. Home plmn. 



Branches unarmed, spreading; leaves ovate, lanceolate, 



hirsute beneath; peduncles solitary; drupe ovate, spherical. 



Prunus domestica, Ger. em. 1497, 1 ; Lin. S. P. 6S0 /3. 



Prunus, Pflrifc. 1512. 



Damson. Damascus plum. Damask prune. 



Woods and hedges ; also cultivated ; tree; April. 



Leaves serrated; peduncles short, sometimes in pairs or 

 threes ; drupe dark purple. — Fruit austere, used chiefly in 

 pastry; also to make an acerb wine, which serves to reduce 

 or imitate port wine. 



Many varieties of this species are cultivated, differing in 

 the size, shape, and colour of the fruit, and in its flavour : 

 this fruit is peculiarly apt to induce the cholera morbus. 



Fam.XXVIII. 63. LEGUMINOS^. Jussieu. 



Ca/yj; 1 -leaved, mostly .5-cut, free; corolla inserted on 

 the calyx ; petals usually 5, irregular, papilionaceous ; upper 

 petal (vexillum or standard) covering the others, 2 side 

 petals (wings) and the two lower (keel) mostly soldered to- 

 gether; stamens usually 1 ; monadelphous; or diadelphous, 9 

 on an androphore and 1 single; ovary free; style 1 ; legu- 

 men 2 valved, 1 or 2-celled ; seed affixed on one of the 

 sutures; perisperm 0; radicle inclining to lobes; cotyledons 

 thick, sometimes carried up in germination unchanged and 

 distinct from the seminal leaves. — Stem, shrubby or herba- 

 ceous; leaves alternate, mostly pinnate, or ternate, rarely 0; 

 leaflets sometimes sleep at night; stipules axillary. 



a. Stamens monadelphous ; leaves simple, ternate, or pinnate 

 ivitli an odd leajiel. 



Col. deeply 2-cut ; lobes keeled at bottom ; 

 legumen scarcely longer than the calyx Ulex. 3G2. 



