ROSE FAMILY. 117 
lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, finely serrulate with glandular-pointed 
teeth ; umbels sessile, 2 -3-flowered ; fruit globular, red; the stone 
ovoid, almost as 5 thick as wide, rounded at both sutures, one of them 
minutely grooved. 
Cuicass Prunus. Chickasaw Plum. Mountain sia 
i Rem§ 0 or 12 feet high, much branched, the young b: Ss virgate, dark purple, 
ooth and shining, the old ones crooked . geniculate, ana poodle thorny. Leaves 
1- 2 inches long, uk ; petioles slender, one fourth to three- fourths of an inch long. 
h the e leaves, in sessile fascicles of threes about half an 
inch long, sl Boe ge ooth. Drupe globose, red mi yellowis -red, nearly or quite 
destitu 8 of hina. witha conve pulp and a thin skin. 
vated. Fl. April. Fr. July. 
Obs. This little tree (which is believed to be a native of our South- 
western territory,—where a vn a small shrub, in its wild state—) md 
sine B culture produce pleasant fruit. n we consider the 
great difficulty attending the culture of the common plum, on accoun 
of the attacks of the curculio, it oil seem that this and the "olbitt na- 
A.u 
tive species should receive more attention from our horti culturists t 
‘has yet been bestowed upon oe It ea oh the Cherry, 3 
may 
22. Crrasu: y). Fruit destitute of bloom ; te done bt ll i. 
sn a Matoes fel “olde (conduplicate) tn the bud ; ; flowers in umbellate 
“ nr es Branches erect or ascending, rather stout ; leaves, 
Fic. 79. wit piel foe ip eat 80. ame 
Eh inner prt of he ra (tone) cotaing e 
