ICOSAXDRIA MOXOGYNIA 285 



icith a short tube ; segments spreading, obtuse, externally villosc. Petals pale red, 

 or purple* Drupe roundish-oval, mostly umbiluate at base, large (1 to 2 inches in 

 diameter), fleshy and succulent, tchilish, or yellow, with a purple blush, clothed 

 with a dense tomentum. 

 Hab. Gardens, and Orchards : frequent. Fl. April. Fr. Aug.— September. 



Obi. There are numerous varieties of this delicious fruit cultivated ; but un- 

 fortunately, the tree is generally so short-lived that very few, except amateurs, art 

 persevering enough to keep up a sujyply % even for dc?fieslic use. The plan proposed 

 by D. Townsend, Esq. of engrafting on the Apricot, and Plum (See rlorul. Cestr. 

 p. 125.), appeared to promise much,for a few years; but did not prove to be an effec- 

 tual preservative. 



2. P. Licvis, DC. Serratures of the leaves all acute ; fruit smooth. 

 DC. Prodr. 2. p. 531. 



Amygdalus Persica, var. nucipcrsica. Willd. Sp. 2. p. 982. Pers. 

 Syir, %. p. 33. var. b. nectarina. Ait.Kc\v.3.p. 194. Lindl. Ency.p, 420. 



Smooth Pkhsica. Vulgd — Nectarine. 



Gall. — Brugnon. Germ. — Nektar-pjir8chenbavm. Hisp, — Mridov. 



Hab. Gardens : not common. FL April. Fr. August. 



Obs. This is scarcely to be distinguished from the preceding, except by its fruit; 

 and has generally been considered only a variety. It is occasionally cultivated by 

 those who are curious in choice fruit ; but is even more difficult and uncertain that i 

 the Peach. Among the varieties of these two spcies, the most remarkable are 

 those in trhich the me so carp, or fleshy portion of the drupe, adheres clostly to the 

 nut {called Clingstone), and those in which it readily separates from the nut {culled 

 Free stone). The foregoing are the only species of the gcnus> as now constituted. 



228. ARMENIA CA. Tournef. DC. Prodr. 2. /;. 531. 

 [Derived from Armenia ; the native country of the tree.] 



Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, deciduous. Petals 5. Drupe softly pu- 

 bescent, fleshy ; nut compressed, smooth, with one margin obtuse, the 

 other acute, both sulcatc. 



Small trees: leaves subcordate, or ovate, alternate, stipular, convolute when 

 youn^r; (lowers preceding the leaves, sessile, or pedicellate, solitary, or 2 or 3 from 

 a bud. Kat. Ord. 75. Lindl. A.mygdale^. 



1. A. vulgaris, Lam. Leaves orbicular-ovate, acuminate, dentate- 

 serrate, subcordate at base ; stipules palmate ; flowers sessile. DC. 

 Prodr. 2. p. 532. 



Prunus Armeniaca. Willd. Sp. 2. p. 989. Ait. Kew. 3. p. 197. Lindl. 

 Ency. p. 422. 

 Common Armexiaca. Vulgd — Common Apricot. 



Gall.-//. Ibricotier. Gcrm.-Dcr .Iprikosenbuum. Hisp.-.ilbaricoque. 

 »Stem 10 to iofeet high, branching. Leaves 2 to 3 or 3 and a half inches long, 

 ami about as wide as long, with a short abrupt acumination, dentate-serrate, smooth; 

 petioles an i?wh to an inch atul half long, with 2 or 3 to 5 or 6 tuberculate cup like 

 -lands on the upper side, near the base of the leaf, and 2 or 3 buds crowded in each 

 exit. Flowers sessile, or subsessile. Petals white. Drupe roundish-oval, some- 

 what compressed, near an inch in diameter, yellowish with a purj,lc blush, clothed 

 with a fine soft tomentum. 



Hab. (Jar lens, <J*c. not common. Fi. April, Fr. July—August. 



