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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. serdlina. 
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. spin'osa). 
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. Cliicasa. 
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. S. saUcifolia. 
2. Downy M., or Hard hack. Leaves coated with wool beneath; flowers rose-color. S. tomentosa. 
3. Italian M., or Maywreath. Smooth ; stems 3° or 4° long, recurved; leaves small, spatulate, 
entire; flowers small, in umbels on short leafy shoots. Cult.; fl. in spring. S. hypericifblia. 
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. S. opulifolia. 
6. Sorb-leaved M. Smooth, 3° to 6° high; leaves pinnate; leaflets oblong-lance-shaped, pointed, cut¬ 
toothed ; flowers in a large panicle, in spring. Cultivated. S. 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. 8. lobdta. 
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. Gill'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. trifoliata. 
2. Western I. (or American Ipecac). Leaflets lance-shaped, more cut than in the last, as are the 
large stipules. W. G. stipulacea. 
