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long, fourteen or fifteen lignes wide across the large diameter & twelve or thirteen lignes 

 across the small diameter. The stem is short & thick and inserts into a recess that is often 

 surrounded with folds. This end of the fruit is much fuller than the other one that 

 terminates in a point or in a large conical protuberance. The side comprising the larger 

 part of the ellipse is divided lengthwise by quite a deep groove. The stem rarely inserts 

 into the center of the end of the fruit, but rather very much at an angle, almost on the side. 

 The husk is a tigne thick, so the pit, having the same shape, is only about two lignes less 

 in each dimension. Its material is hard; the ridge is barely discernible. It contains a large 

 almond, firm & very good. 



VI. Bitter ALMOND, larger fruit. 

 ALMOND TREE with large fruit and bitter almond. 



This tree, that has a bitter almond, is a variety of the preceding one. It has two 

 other varieties, one sweet, the other bitter that have fruit that is very large but much less 

 elongated & almost round. 



VII. Bitter ALMOND. C. B. Pin. [Translator's note: Caspar Bauhin Pinax, 1560-1624, 



was an early describer of the tree] 



ALMOND TREE with bitter fruit. 



I don't know if this is a variety of the common almond tree with sweet fruit (n°. 

 1). Its habit & foliage are quite similar, but the flower & the fruit are different: 



1°. This one's flower is larger (fifteen or sixteen lignes in diameter). The petals 

 aren't as wide in proportion to their length; they are heart-shaped with a deeper cleft. 

 After they develop they retain a very slight tinge of red that is more conspicuous at the 

 unguis. 



