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4. Wild Black Cherry. Shrub or large tree, with reddish-brown bark on the branches, oblong or 
lance-oblong leaves with short and blunt teeth, and purplish-black vinous fruit, ripe in autumn. 
P. serdtina. 
Plum* Prunus. 
All are cultivated, except the Beach Plum ; but No. 2 is also wild; so is No. 3 in the Southwest. 
1. Common Plum (P. domestica), with all its varieties, probably came from the Bullace Plum (P. 
insititia ), and that perhaps from the thorny Sloe (P. spinosa). 
2. Wild (Red and Yellow) Plum : well known for its very juicy pulp in a (red or partly yellow) 
tough skin ; leaves coarsely serrate. p, Americana. 
3. Chickasaw Plum : with lance-shaped finely serrate leaves, and small red, thin-skinned, cherry- 
like fruit. S. p. Chicasa. 
4. Beach Plum. A low bush on the sea-coast, with the leaves downy beneath, and a small purple 
or crimson fruit. P. maritima . 
Meadow-Sweet. Spircea. 
Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, broad or roundish. Pistils commonly 5, making little pods (follicles) with 
2 or few seeds in each. Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 6 are wild species, but also cult, in gardens and grounds. 
* Shrubs, with white flowers, except No. 2. 
1. Common Meadow-Sweet. Smooth, 2° or 3° high ; leaves oblong or lance-oblong and wedge- 
shaped; flowers in a crowded panicle, sometimes pale flesh-color. Wet grounds. 8. saUcifblia. 
2. Downy M., or Hardhack. Leaves coated with wool beneath; flowers rose-color. S. iomentosa. 
3. Italian M., or May wreath. Smooth ; stems 3° or 4° long, recurved; leaves small, spatulate, 
entire ; flowers small, in umbels on short leafy shoots. Cult. ; fi. in spring. 8. liypericifolia. 
4. Ninebark M. Smoothish, 4° to 10° high ; branches recurving; leaves rounded, 3-lobed ; flowers 
in umbels, in spring; pods 3 to 5, bladdery, turning purplish. Old bark of stems peeling off in 
thin layers. Rocky banks, N. & W., and cultivated. 8. opulifolia. 
5. Sorb-leayed M. Smooth, 3° to 6° high; leaves pinnate; leaflets oblong-lance-shaped, pointed, cut- 
toothed; flowers in a large panicle, in spring. Cultivated. 8. sorbifolia. 
* * Herbs, with perennial roots, and interruptedly pinnate leaves, and flowers in a crowded compound 
cyme, on a long naked stalk. All but No. 6 are foreign species. 
6. Queen-of-the-Prairie M. Smooth; leaflets 3 to 7 and some little ones; end-leaflet very large, 
parted and cleft ; flowers peach-blossom-color, in summer. W. and cult. S. lobctta. 
7. English M. Leaves smaller than in the last, white-downy beneath ; flowers white. S. Ulmaria. 
8. Dropwort M. Smooth; leaflets 9 to 21, besides the minute ones, linear-oblong, much cut,- cymes 
of a few slender branches; flowers white, single or double. S. Jilipendula. 
Indian-Physic. Gitt'enia. 
Calyx narrow or club-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals 5, lance-shaped, rather unequal, white or pale rose. 
Stamens 10 to 20, short. Pistils and little pods 5. — Herbs, with perennial roots, and leaves of three 
cut-toothed thin leaflets. Flowers in a loose corymb or panicle, in summer. 
1. Common Indian-Physic (or Bowman’s Root). Leaflets oblong; stipules small and entire. W. 
and cultivated in gardens. G. trifolicita. 
2. Western I. (or American Ipecac). Leaflets lance-shaped, more cut than in the last, as are the 
large stipules. W. G. stipulacea. 
