592 1C0SANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Prunus. 
RU'BUS. Cal. five-cleft: Blass, five petals: Berry superior, 
compound, (granules single-seeded. E.) 
TORMEMT1I/LA. Cal. eight-cleft: Blass, four petals : Seeds 
eight, awnless. 
DRY'AS. Cal. five to ten-cleft: Bloss. five to eight petals : 
Seeds many, with feathery awns. 
FRAGA'RIA. Cal. ten-cleft: Bloss. five petals : Seeds many, 
deciduous, smooth, placed on a berry-like receptacle. 
POTENTIL'LA. Cal. ten-cleft: Bloss. five petals: ( Seeds 
many, beardless, rugose. E.) 
GE'UM. Cal. ten-cleft: Bloss. five petals : Seeds many, with a 
jointed awn. 
CO'MARUM. Cal. ten-cleft: Bloss. five petals : Seeds many 
permanent, upon a fleshy, globular, villous receptacle. 
[^Spiraea. Sempervivum tectorum.] 
MONOQYNIA. 
PRU'NUS.* Calyx five-cleft, beneath: Petals five : Drupa 
one-celled, closed at top: Nut with prominent seams. 
P. padus. Flowers in pendulous bunches: leaves deciduous, with two 
glands at the base on the under side. 
(. E. Bot. 1383. E.)— FI. Ban. 20 5—Ger. 1322. 9—Dad. 777. 1—Ger. Em. 
1504. 9—J. B. i. a. 228— Lob. Obs. 593. 2— Park. 1517. 3. 
(A small tree, with smooth bark. E.) Calyx finely serrated; within at 
the bottom beset with numerous woolly hairs. Petals serrated. Stamens 
twenty-five. ( Leaves alternate, on leaf-stalks, inversely-egg-shaped, 
sharp-pointed, serrated, veined, smooth, slightly glaucous, smelling 
somewhat like Rue. Bunches solitary, simple, many-flowered, leafy at 
the base. Flowers white. Fruit black, nauseous. FI. Brit. Stone of 
the drupa rugose, answering the characters of Amygdahs, not smooth as 
in Prunus ; thus confirming the assertion of Gaertner, that no solid cha¬ 
racter exists between these two genera. E. Bot. E.) 
Bird Cherry. (In Scotland Hog Cherry. E.) Woods and hedges in the 
northern counties. In a lane between Temple Mills and Epping Forest. 
About Ingleborough, Yorkshire. Curtis. Woods in Norfolk, common. 
Mr. Woodward. Hedges at Pendeford, Stafford. Mr. Pitt. Woods by 
the Tees. Mr. Robson. A few miles north of Manchester, very common 
in woods and hedges. Mr. Caley. (All along the banks of the Dee. Mr. 
* (Said to be a word of Asiatic originj in Greek irpswi, supposed to signify the wild 
Plum. E.) 
