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Prunus angustifolia varians Wight and Hedrick. Chickasaw Plum. 



Range. — Kansas (Desha County), eastern Oklahoma, and southern Arkansas 

 to Texas (Cherokee County); naturalized in the eastern Gulf States. 



NAMES IN USE 



Big Chickasaw Plum (lit.). Chickasaw Plum. 



Prunus alleghaniensis Porter. Allegheny Sloe. 



Range. — Southern Connecticut; central Pennsylvania (Tusseys Mountain, 

 northwestern Huntingdon County; Bald Eagle Mountain and valley, and Alle- 

 ghenies in Clearfield and Elk Counties); Virginia (Rockbridge County); North 

 Carolina (Ashe County). 



NAMES IN USE 



Porter's Plum (lit.). Allegheny Sloe (lit.). 



Allegheny Plum (lit.). 



Prunus subcordata Bentham. Pacific Plum. 



Range. — Central Oregon to central California (Cascades, Sierra Nevada, and 

 coast range to Black Mountain). 



NAMES IN USE 



Wild Plum (Calif.). Pacific Plum. 



Prunus umbellata Elliott. Black Sloe. 



Range. — North Carolina (Stanly County) and coast region from South Caro- 

 lina to Florida (Mosquito Inlet on the east coast and on the west coast from 

 Tampa Bay) and west to eastern Texas and southern Arkansas (near Camden) . 



NAMES in use 



Black Sloe (S. C, Ga., Ala., Miss.). Hog Plum (Fla.). 



Southern Bullace Plum (S. C, Ala., Wild Plum (Fla.). 



Miss.). Sloe. 



Prunus umbellata injucunda (Small) Sargent. Black Sloe. 



Range. — Central and southern Georgia (base of Stone Mountain and Little 

 Stone Mountain, Dekalb County); occurring also in Central Alabama (Alpine 

 Mountains, Talladega County). 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly, and still, designated as Prunus injucunda 

 Small, and as Prunus mitis Beadle. 



names in use 

 Hog Plum. Black Sloe. 



Prunus umbellata tarda (Sargent) Wight. Black Sloe. 



Range. — From northeastern Texas (vicinity of Marshall, Harrison County) to 

 western Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and western Mississippi. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Prunus tarda Sargent. 



NAME IN USE 



Black Sloe 

 Prunus tenuifolia Sargent. 75 



Range. — Texas (known now only from Cherokee County, where it was found 

 in oak woods in the vicinity of Jacksonville and Larissa). 



78 Distinguished from other Texas plum trees by its pale, deeply furrowed bark, thin leaves, and oblong 

 fruit, which has a thin, flat stone. 



