CHERRY TREE. 
Natural Order Rosacea, ( sub-order Amygdale^, Jussieu.) 
Linnxan Classification, Icosandria, Monogynia. 
CERASUS, (Jussieu.) 
Calyx urceolate-hemispherical; the border 5 cleft, deciduous. 
Petals spreading. Stamens 15 to 30. Ovary glabrous, with 
2 collateral pendulous ovules. Drupe globose, fleshy, desti- 
tute of bloom; the nut hard and bony, mostly globose and 
even. 
Trees or shrubs chiefly of the temperate parts of Europe and 
North America, forming several natural sections. Leaves ser- 
rated, deciduous or sempervirent. 
§ I. Flowers corymbose or clustered . Leaves deciduous . 
True Cherries. 
SOFT-LEAVED CHERRY. 
CERASUS mollis, foliis oblongis ovatisve plerisque obtusis 
serrulatis subtus tomentoso-pubescentibus , corymbis racemo- 
sis 5 ad 6 Jioris tomentosis, laciniis calycinis obtusis rejlexis 
tubo pubescente brevioribus , drupa ovoidea. 
Cerasus mollis . Douglas in Hooker. Flor. Bor. Amer., vol. 
1 . p. 169. Torrey and Gray, Flor. N. Amer. 1 . p. 410. 
This species of Cherry, growing 12 to 25 feet high, 
is confined to the Oregon Territory, and particularly to 
the borders of the Oregon River and its tributaries as 
far as its sources. We met with it in thickets on hills, 
