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47132 to 47145— Continued. 



"As it came under my observation in Japan, this cherry is quick 

 growing and obviously short lived. It makes a tree 6 to 10 meters tall 

 with a trunk 1 to 2 meters in girth, and has thick spreading and as- 

 cending-spreading branches. The bark is pale gray and smooth even 

 on old trees. The shoots are stout, usually with prominent lenticels, 

 grayish at first and often passing to dull reddish purple before becom- 

 ing finally pale gray. The leaves are glabrous and green, but as they 

 open often have a more or less brownish, metallic luster; they are 

 ovate or rarely obovate, abruptly caudate-acuminate, double-serrate, 

 and the teeth are long-aristate. The flowers are fragrant, everywhere 

 glabrous, white (pinkish in the bud) and may appear before or with 

 the leaves; the peduncle is sometimes almost wanting; usually it is 

 from 2 to 4 centimeters long, but occasionally it is 6 centimeters and 

 even more in length. The scaly involucral bracts are slightly viscid, 

 the bracts subtending the pedicels are green, obovate, glandular-ciliate 

 and very prominent. The fruit is ovoid, black, and lustrous. 



" In this cherry the peduncle is extremely variable in length, often 

 on the same individual tree, but this character has no taxonomic 

 value in this or any other Japanese species. Varieties and forms have 

 been based on this character, which is not only inconstant, but may 

 vary from year to year. Koidzumi has distinguished the wild plant 

 under the name of speciosa, but I can not discover any differences be- 

 tween a series of specimens from wild trees and those from cultivated 

 trees. Koehme says this plant is in cultivation in Europe under the 

 name P. serrulata yoshino. In Japan the vernacular name Yoshino is 

 applied to P. yedoensis Matsumura, and not to any form of P. lanne- 

 siana. Koidzumi gives the vernacular name of Ohyamasakura to the 

 wild plant. The cultivated plant and its forms are known as oshi- 

 mazukura or as sakura." (Wilson, p. 45, under P. lannesiana forma 

 albida.) 



47140. " Ranzan." " Flowers single, pink, on long slender pedicels. 

 This is a very pleasing form." (Wilson, p. 52, under P. lannesiana 

 forma ranzan.) 



47141. " Shirayuki." A moderately large tree with numerous closely 

 crowded, erect-spreading branches, smooth brown-gray twigs, yellowish 

 brown young leaves, and white flowers with hairy peduncles. Blossom- 

 ing time, mid- April. (Miyoshi, p. 127, under P. serrulata Lindl. 

 forma nivea.) 



" With its large flowers this distinct form resembles P. yedoensis 

 Matsumura, but the bracteoles show that it belongs to P. serrulata 

 Lindl. The branches are erect-spreading and the flowers white, single 

 or nearly so." (Wilson, p. 34, under P. serrulata var. pubescens 

 forma sirayuki.) 



47142. " Shitoyefugen." [No description of this variety has been found.] 



47143. " Surugadainioi." A moderately large tree with brown-gray twigs, 

 brownish red young leaves, and white, fragrant flowers. Blossoming 

 time about the end of April. (Miyoshi, p. 132, under P. serrulata LindL 

 forma surugadai-odora.) 



" Flowers semidouble, fragrant, nearly white, pendulous on long 

 slender pedicels. This is a late-flowering form." ( Wilson, p. 51, under 

 P. lannesiana forma surugadai-odora.) 



