592 
PI. ex. cal. 
361. Prunus. 62. DRYADE^L 
Woods and hedges, also cultivated; tree; April. 
Leaves narrow at bottom; petals white, reverse ovate ; 
drupes solitary. — Fruit eatable, but inferior in flavour, is 
rendered better by exposure to frost. 
$. alba . Drupe whitish yellow ; plant small. 
Primus sylvestris fructu majore albo, Rail Syn. 462,3. 
White bullace. White bullesse. 
y. rubra. Drupe red, austere. 
Prunus sylvestris fructu rubro, acerbo et ingrato, Raii Syn. 462,4. 
3. Prunus domestlca. Hom,e plum. 
Branches unarmed, spreading; leaves ovate, lanceolate, 
hirsute beneath ; peduncles solitary; drupe ovate, spherical. 
Prunus domestica, Ger. em. 1497, 1 ; Lin. S. P. 680 /3. 
Prunus, Park, i 5i 2. 
Damson. Damascus plum. Damask prune. 
Woods and hedges; also cultivated; tree; April. 
Leaves serrated ; peduncles short, sometimes in pairs or 
threes ; drupe dark purple. — Fruit austere, used chiefly in 
pastry; also to make an acerb wine, which serves to reduce 
or imitate port wine. 
Many varieties of this species are cultivated, differing in 
the size, shape, and colour of the fruit, and in its flavour : 
this fruit is peculiarly apt to induce the cholera morbus. 
Fam. XXVIII. 63. LEGUMINOSAE. Jussieu. 
Calyx 1-leaved, mostly 5-cut, free; corolla inserted on 
the calyx ; petals usually 5, irregular, papilionaceous ; upper 
petal (vexillum or standard) covering the others, 2 side 
petals (wings) and the two lower (keel) mostly soldered to- 
gether; stamens usually 1 0 ; monadelphous; or diadelplious, 9 
on an androphore and 1 single; ovary free; style 1 ; legu- 
men 2 valved, 1 or 2-celled ; seed affixed on one of the 
sutures; perisperm 0; radicle inclining to lobes; cotyledons 
thick, sometimes carried up in germination unchanged and 
distinct from the seminal leaves. — Stem shrubby or herba- 
ceous ; leaves alternate, mostly pinnate, or ternate, rarely 0 ; 
leaflets sometimes sleep at night ; stipules axillary. 
a. Stamens monadelphous ; leaves simple , ternate , or pinnate 
with an odd leaflet. 
Cal. deeply 2-cut; lobes keeled at bottom ; 
legumen scarcely longer than the calyx 
Ulex. 362. 
