ICOSANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Prmius. 355 



^. Cerasus sylvestris, fructu minimo cordiformi. How Phyi. 25. 

 Rail Spi. 463 . 



Merry-treCj of the Cheshire peasants. How ibid. 



y. Cerasus sylvestris septentrionalis, fructu parvo serotino. Raii 

 Spi.463. cd. 2. 302. 



S. Prunus avium. Linn. Sp. PI. 680 ? With. 450. 



P. Cerasus y. Huds. 213. 



P. nigra. Ehrh. Arb. 73. ' 



P. nigricans. Ehrh. Beitr. v. 7. 1 26. 



Cerasus sylvestris, fructu nigro. Raii Syn. 463. 



C. nigra. Ger. Em. 1505./. bad. 



£. Corone or Coroun Cherry. Mill. Diet. 



In woods and hedges. 



/3. In various parts of Cheshire ; Mr. Stonehouse. How. Also in 

 Lancashire and Westmoreland. Ray. 



y. On the banks of the Tees, about Bernard's-castle, plentifully. 

 Johnson. 



S. In the midland and eastern counties. 



£. About Bergh-Apton, Norfolk, and in Hertfordshire. 



Tree. May. 



Branches round, with a polished ash-coloured bark, whose cuticle 

 splits horizontally. Leaves ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, pointed, 

 veiny, with copious glandular serratures, and at the base 2 un- 

 equal glands, sometimes removed to the /ootefa/A; ,- the upper 

 surface smooth ; the under more or less hairy, especially about 

 the veins. These hairs disappear in the cultivated varieties, and 

 though mentioned by Linnseus as tlie mark of h's P. avium, do 

 not form a specific distinction. It is hard indeed to define species 

 or varieties in plants so generally cultivated, and so widely pro- 

 pagated by birds, and other natural or artificial means; being 

 meanwhile subject to every possible accident of cross impregna- 

 tion. The powers in all the kinds are white, on long simple 

 stalks, but few together, in umbels produced by different buds 

 from the foliage. Fruit almost globular ; in a, from which the 

 common Kentish Cherry is but one remove, red, acid, and au- 

 stere ; in /3 said to be smaller and heart-shaped; in y small, 

 round, red, not ripe before September ; in S rather small, 

 roundish, black, and sweet ; in e larger and of a better flavour, 

 but of the same colour, to which its name from Corone, a Crow, 

 appears to allude. The leaves in every variety are simply folded 

 flat while young, bv which Cherries differ from the Bullace tribe. 

 Stipulas and bract'eas pale, with glandular teeth or fringes, deci^ 

 duous. Nut hard, very smooth. 



*3. P. domestica. Wild Plum-tree. 

 Flower-stalks solitary or in pairs. Leiives lanceolate- 

 ovate; convolute while young. Branches without thorns. 



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