CEE ASUS. 
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amongst some perhaps of the above recorded subvarr. of (3. or 
otherwise, I have not overlooked P. insititia L., distinguished 
according to authors from P. domestica L. by its velvety-pu- 
bescent greyish young shoots or branches, 1. downy beneath, 
finely pubescent ped., cal. smooth and subgranulated within, 
and always globose red or y. fr. It is the common wild Bul- 
lace-plum of England, EB. t. 841. 
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3. Ceeasus Juss. 
§ FI. in umbellate fascicles or bimches, earlier than the 1. 
L. deciduous. 
tff 1. C. Avium (L.). Cherry. Cereja (the tr. Cerejeird). 
Arboreous; 1. oblong-obovate abruptly acuminate droopiny 
sharply serrate pubescent beneath ; umbels sessile lax crowded 
round the leaf-buds ; scales of fl.-buds all scarious not leafy ; 
calyx-tube contracted at top , sep. entire ; fr. heart-shaped-globose 
sweet. — Prunus Avium L., Desf. i. 394 ; Brot. ii. 252 ; Koch 229 ; 
Bab. 90. P. Cerasus EB. t. 706; Hook. FI. Sc. i. 150 and Brit. 
FI. (ed. 5) 92 ; Sm. E. FI. ii. 354 (not Linn.). Cerasus Avium , 
Duracina and Juliana DC. ii. 535, 536. 
/3. Juliana Koch 1. c. ; fr. moderately large heart-shaped black, 
red, or yellowish, flesh soft moderately firm not acid. — C. Ju- 
liana DC. ii. 536. — Tr. per. Mad. cult. reg. 2, Chiefly to the 
W. of Funchal, Rib. Brava and Serra d’Agoa, Canhas, Cal- 
heta, &c., about cottages. FI. April; fr. June, July. — This, the 
common cultivated garden Cherry, forms in Mad., as elsewhere, 
a mostly pyramidal tr. 20-30 ft. high, with upright or ascend- 
ing branches, and rather large white fl., appearing with the 1. 
“ Outer scales of the leaf-buds deflexed ” (Bab.). Fr. subglobose 
full bright-red sweet, on stalks 1^-2 in. long. Subvarr. : 1, 
Cereja incarnada, Early Red, ripe in June ; 2, Cereja preta , 
Black, immediately succeeding. 
Var. y. Duracina Koch ( C. Duracina DC. ii. 535), the White 
Heart of the English, and Bigarreau of the French, with large 
y. heart-shaped very firm crisp-fleshed fr., has not occurred in 
Mad. 
f2. C. vulgaris Mill. Ginja (the tr. Gingeira). 
Fruticose and stoloniferous ; 1. broadly oblong-obovate or 
oval doubly crenate-serrate smooth not drooping ; umbels ses- 
sile few-fi. scattered; inner scales of fi.-buds leafy; calyx-tube 
not contracted at the top, sep. crenate-serrate ; fr. globose. — 
Mill. Diet. no. 1. C. Capromana DC. ii. 536. Prunus Cerasus 
Linn. ; Brot. ii. 251 (at least in part) ; Koch 229 ; EBS. t. 2863 ; 
