SOFT-LEAVED CHERRY. 
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near the Wahlamet, flowering about the month of May. 
The young branches are dark grey and somewhat 
downy. The leaves are softly downy beneath, on short 
petioles, oblong, or oblong-ovate, mostly obtuse, some- 
times acute, minutely serrulate, 2 to 2i inches long, by 
about an inch in width; stipules small and deeply ciliate 
as well as the bractes. Flowers small and white, the 
petals rounded and concave. Segments of the calyx 
ovate, short and obtuse. Stigma clavate, petioles and 
calyx tomentose. Fruit ovate, astringent and un- 
pleasant. 
Plate XLVI. 
A branch of the natural size with young fruit, a. The flower. 
Red or Northern Cherry. ( Cerasus Pennsylvanica. 
Tor. and Gray. C. borealis, Mich, and Mich. Sylva, p. 
90.) According to Macmin of West Chester, this tree 
in the Beech woods of Tioga county, Pennsylvania, 
attains the height of 60 feet, with a diameter of 18 
inches. 
