By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 127 



Locality. In hedgerows, naturalized. Rare. T. II et Fr. cum 

 pmced. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sparingly throughout Wilts. The 

 original stock of our garden Plum, and often with difficulty dis- 

 tinguished from some states of P. insititia, of which it is probably 

 but a still larger variety. 



4. P. avium (Linn.) Common wild Cherry-tree or Gran, lit. of 

 the birds, Cerasus Avium (Mench). Engl. Bot. t. 706. Cerasus 

 sylvestris fructu nigro. Raii. Syn. p. 463. 



Locality. In woods and hedges. Rare. Tree, Fl. April, May. 

 Fruit, July. Area, * 2. 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



2. South Middle District, " Westbury," Mrs. Overbury. 



3. South-west District, " Corsley," Miss Griffith. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. In the woods about Box; Kingsdown, 

 Spye Park, and Bowood. 



5. North-east District, « Marlborough/' Rev. T. A. Preston. 

 Probably not truly indigenous in the above localities, but owing 



its origin to seeds, disseminated by birds, which resort to the 

 Cherry-trees in gardens. A moderate size tree with round branches, 

 and a polished ash coloured bark, whose epidermis splits horizon- 

 tally ; in old trees the bark is very rough. Branches spreading 

 never pendulous, the whole forming a round head. Leaves obovate 

 or obovate-oblong, glandular, with longer leaf-stalks than those in 

 P. Cerasus (Linn.) The flowers are white, on long simple pedicels, 

 but few together in umbels produced by different buds from the 

 foliage. Petals flaccid scarcely spreading, calyx at length reflexed, 

 nut hard, round, and smooth. There are several varieties 

 of Wild Cherry enumerated by botanical writers, differing 

 principally in the shape, and colour of the fruit. The leaves in 

 every variety are simply folded flat (conduplicate) while young, by 

 which character cherries differ from the Bullace-tribe, in which the 

 leaves are rolled lengthways in a spiral manner, (convolute). In 

 the spring when in full bloom it is highly ornamental to our woods, 

 and its foliage in the Autumn, when it assumes a deep purplish red 

 colour, gives great richness to the landscape, and contrasts well 

 vol. vm. — no. xxiii. M 



