An analytical key to some of the common wild and cultivated species of flowering plants

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...the characters of Rosacece, but with simple leaves, a single style, and a superior 1-celled ovay becoming a fleshy fruit with a stone (drupe). 1. PRUNUS (plum. Peach. Cherry) Small trees or shrubs with clusters of flowers, a bell-shaped to tubular 5-cleft calyx, 5 spreading petals, and 15-20 stamens. Flowers in clusters of 2 or 3; fruit pubescent; peaches, almonds, etc. 1. Prunus Persica (peach). Small trees with lanceolate serrate leaves; flowers pink; fruit thick-fleshed and edible. Cultivated from China. Flowers in umbel-like clusters; fruit covered with a bloom; plums. 2. Prunus domestics (common Plum). Small trees with large ovate or obovate coarsely serrate leaves, usually pubescent beneath; flowers white; fruit variable but mostly globular or oblong. Cultivated probably from Asia. 3. Prunus Americana (common Wild Plum). A thorny tree 8-30 ft. high; leaves ovate, conspicuously pointed, coarsely serrate, smooth when mature; flowers usually white; fruit roundish oval, yellow, orange, or red. Woods and river banks. Flowers in small clusters along the branches or in racemes; fruit without a bloom; cherries. 4. Prunus serdtina (wild Black Cherry). A large tree; leaves 3, oblong or lanceolate oblong, taper-pointed, serrate, shining above; flowers small, white, in long racemes; fruit small, globular, purplish-black. Woods. 5. Prunus Cerasus (common Cherry). A low tree with spreading grayish branches; flowers white, in small clusters from lateral buds, mostly earlier than the leaves; leaves ovate or obovate; fruit red of various shades. Cultivated from Europe. XXXVII. CiESALPINACEiE (senna Family) Resembling PapiIionaceae, but the standard smaller than the wings and inclosed by them in bud, and stamens distinct. 1. CERCIS (redbud. Judas-tree) Trees with round...