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the disk shortly oval, serrulated, and usually with 2 glands at its base. 
Flowers in sessile umbels, few in an umbel; pedicels and calyxes pubescent. 
Fruit upon a short pedicel, globose, brownish purple, austere. (Dec. Prod.) 
A low shrub. Western parts of Pennsylvania, on the borders of lakes. 
Height 1 ft. to 3 ft. Introduced in 1820. Flowers white ; April and May. 
Drupe brownish purple, very astringent ; ripe in July. 
2% 17. C. pennsyLva’Nica Lois. The Pennsylvanian Cherry Tree. 
Identification. Lois. in N. Du Ham., 5. p.9., Dec. Prod., 2. p. 539.3 Don’s Mill., 2. p. 514, 
Synonymes. Prinue pennsylvanica L. fil. Suppl p. 252., Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. p.331.; P. penn- 
sylvanica Willd. Baum. edit. 181], p.310.; P. lanceolata Willd. Abb. p. 240. 
Engravings. Abb. Georg. Ins., vol. i. p. 89. t. 45.; and our fig. 464. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves with two glands at the base 
of the disk, which is oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
and glabrous. Flowers disposed in grouped sessile < 
umbels, which have something of the character of , 
panicles. (Dec. Prod.) A shrub. North America, from 
New England to Virginia, in woods and plantations. 
Height 6 ft. to 8 ft.” Introduced in 1773. Flowers 
white ; May. . Drupe black, small, but agreeable to 
eat ; ripe in July. 
Sir W. J. Hooker considers this sort as synonymous 
with C. borealis Mdichz., in which he may probably be 
correct. We have, however, kept them distinct ; not 
only because the whole genus appears in a state of con- 464. ¢, pennsylvfinica. 
fusion, but because, though C. pennsylvanica is said to 
have been introduced in 1773, we have never seen the plant in a healthy state, 
and, consequently, feel unable to give any decided opinion respecting it. 
« 18. C.sapo’nica Lois. The Japan Cherry Tree. 
Identification. Lois. in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 83.5 Don’s Mill, 2. p. 514. 
Synonymes. Prinus japé Thunb. Fl. Jap. p.201., and Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t.1801.; P. sinensis 
Pers, Ench., 2. p. 36. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1801., from a plant grown in a green-house; and our Jigs. 465, 466. from 
a plant grown in the open air. 
Spee. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, acu- 
minated, glabrous, shining. Pe- 
duncles solitary. Lobes of calyx , 
shorter than the tube. (Don’s 
Mill.) A slender shrub, some- 
what tender. China. Height 2 ft. 
to 4 ft. Introd. 1810. Flowers 
pale blush-coloured, produced in 
profusion on numerous slender 
purplish or brownish red twigs ; 
March to May. Drupe?. Naked 
young wood brownish red. 
465, C. japénica. 
Variety. 
* C. 7. 2 miltipler Ser. Amygdalus pimila Lin. 
Mant. 74., Bot. Mag. t. 2176., and of the 
‘i, Hammersmith and other nurseries. (Our 
M7) figs. 467, and 468.) — Flowers semidouble, 
pink like those of the species. 
if There are two shrubs in British nurseries 
“ ) often confounded under the name of JA. 
Sy pumila. The one is that now described, 
¢ which may be known at any season by the 
467. C,j.multipter. Purplish or brownish red colour of the 
bark of its young shoots; and, in summer, 
by its glabrous finely serrated leaves, which have a 46s. cx}, matiplex 
