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and it affords an excellent marmalade and a richly fla- 
voured jelly. 
Psid. Montanumy is also a native of Jamaica, and 
rises to the height of 60 or 70 feet, producing also an 
agreeable fruit arid ai valuable wood. 
Amygdalus. Gen. char.— Cab inferior, five-cleft ; 
cor. five-petaled ; drupe, a nut marked with pores. 
This genus includes the Peach, Amyg. , Per sic a, a 
native of Persia ; the Almond-tree, Amyg. Communis ^ 
which by difference of culture affords bitter and sweet 
almonds, is a native of Barbary, hut is cultivated in the 
south of Europe ; and Dwarf Almond, Amyg, Nana, 
with leaves tapering at the base, a native of Russia and 
Tartary, and one of the most delicate ornaments of the 
shrubbery in early springs 
Prunus. Gen. char.— Cal. inferior, five-cleft ; cor. 
five-petaled ; drupe, with an entire kernel. 
Prun. Padus, Bird Cherry ; with flowers in pendu- 
lous racemes ; not uncommon in woods and hedges in 
Britain, especially in the north of England. 
Prun, Spinosa, Sloe Tree, or Black Thorn ; with so- 
litary peduncles, smooth lanceolate leaves, and spinous 
branches ; common in hedges and among brushwood, 
and flowers early in the spring. 
To this genus belong Bullace-tree, Prun. Jnsititia, 
with double peduncles, and branches ending in a spine ; 
common in hedges and woods ; the Cherry-tree, Prun. 
Cerasus , of which numerous varieties arise from cul- 
ture; and the Plum-tree, Prun . Domestic a, of which 
the varieties are not less numerous; 
