It is here that the C. Juliana and Duracina of modern botanists have to be referred ; while their C. caproniana, or acid succulent cherries, are probably hybrids. [CHERRY.] For a full account of these species see Loudon's Aboretum Britannicum.' 3. C. chammcerasus, the Ground-Cherry. Flowers in umbels, either with the leaves or earlier. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, shining, cre nated, quite smooth, with few or no glands. Fruit spherical, acid, with stalks longer than the leaves. A dwarf species, never rising above 3 or 4 feet high, and in the gardens usually budded on the common cherry at the height of 5 or 6 feet from the ground. It is not ornamental, and is seldom seen. Its native situations are stony, rocky, mountainous places, about the skirts of woods and in hedges in the eastern parts of Europe and west of Asia; it is common in Lower Austria and Hungary. Gmelin met with it In Siberia, and Ledebour in the Kirghis Desert, near Karkaraly, in the 4. C. nigra, the Black American Cherry. Flowers in sessile umbels, appearing before the leaves ; light pink. Leaves obovate-oblong or obovate-lancoolate, often cuspidate, somewhat doubly serrated, with or without two glands at the base, slightly rugose. Segments of the calyx toothed. Native of the northern states of the North American Union, and extending into Canada and Newfoundland. It forms rather a handsome tree, with its loose umbels of pinkish flowers. The fruit is as large as a moderately-sized cherry.
5. a Peassyfrattica, Pennsylvanian Cherry. Flowers in aessilo umbels, appearing along with the leaves. Leaves ovate or oval, sharp pointed, smooth, and rather shining, with minute unequal toothinga. Segments of the calyx toothlesa. A native of the more northern parts of North America, especially in Canada, where it is common. It forms a small tree, very like C. nigm in some respects, but differing from that species in its much smaller colourless flower and smooth rather shining leaves, which never acquire the obovate figure so common in C. aigra. The fruit is that of a bird-cherry, and is said to bo sweet C. borealis is considered by Sir William Hooker as being identical with this. It in represented in the southern states of the American Union by C. vmbellata, which appears to differ chiefly in having spinoun branches, more finely serrated leaves, and downy calyxes.
6. C. serra/ata, the Fine-Toothed Cherry. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at the base, tapering to the point, bordered with fine bristle pointed teeth, thin, and not shining. A native of China, and only known in our gardens with double flowers. These are exceedingly delicate and beautiful. but they appear at so early a season as to be liable to injury from the spring frosts.
7. C. paeudoceramu, the Chinese Cherry. Flowers in hairy loose corymbe, appearing before the leaves, with a long hairy tube to the calyx. Leaves ovate or obovate, cuapidate, doubly serrated, slightly
downy on the veins. A Chinese species, probably from the northern provinces of that great empire. It bears a small pale-red sweet fruit, which is more readily forced than that of the Common Cherry.
8. C. depress°, the Sand-Cherry. Flowers appearing a little earlier than the leaves, or about the same time, in small compact umbels. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, serrated, glaucous on the under side, bluish- , green and somewhat shining on the upper. Fruit mucronate. A small bush resembling a dwarf almond, covered with profusion of small white flowers in May, and afterwards with small, black, bitter, shining, sharp-pointed fruit. It is found in Canada and the northern part of the United States.
0. C. prostrate, the Spreading Cherry. Flowers solitary, or few in a cluster, appearing along with the leaves, than which they are shorter. Leaves roundish-ovate, loosely hairy beneath, deeply and simply ser rated. Calyx-tube oblong, segments downy inside. A small prostrate bush, found on the sea-coast of Candia, and on the mountains of Dal matia and Ania Minor.
10. C. Japonica, the Dwarf-Almond. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, very much tapering to the point, finely serrated, slightly downy beneath, very rugose. Flowers appearing a little before the leaves in small dense clusters. Calyx smooth, bell-shaped, with the segments as long at the tube. A. native of Japan, and long known in our gardens as the Double Dwarf-Almond, one of the moat beautiful objects that appear in the month of March.
Suction Ii. Bird-Cherries. Flowers growing in long Racemes, appearing with or later than the Leaves. Leaves deciduous.
11. C. Maltaleb, the Perfumed Cherry. Leaves roundish ovate, deciduous, glaucous on the underside, simply serrated. Flowers in somewhat corymbose racemes not much longer than the leaves. A shrub or small tree, remarkable for the powerful and agreeable odour of its flowers. It is a native of rocks in the Tyrol, Dalmatia, Car niolis, and Hungary, spreading into Asia till it acquires its most eastern limits in the woods and hedges of the southern parts of the Crimea. It is not a particularly ornamental plant, and though per ftxtly hardy is seldom seen in our gardens. The fruit is black, and nauseously bitter.
12. C. Padua (Prunus Padua, Linn.), the Common Bird-Cherry. Leaves oblong, cuspidate, rugose, simply serrated, deciduous. Flowers in racemes much longer than the leaves. A common species, wild in the woods and hedges of the middle parts of Europe, less common in the south, and occurring on the mountains of Caucasus and the Altai. It is readily known by its deciduous rugoso leaves, long racemes of white flowers, and round bitter fruit, which is however agreeable enough to binds. It is a native of Great Britain.