KEY TO TREES AND SHRUBS IN AUTUMN 



199 a Fruit black, fleshy, clustered in the axils of the leaves 



Rhamnus cathartica. p 184 



b Fruit wanting or not completely as in a 200 



300 (i Leaves usually palmately-veined ; fruit apple-like, small 



Crataegus. p 167 

 b Leaves not palmately-veined 201 



201 n Fruit scarlet, berry-like, % in. or less long, in clusters 



Berberis vulgaris. p 154 

 b Fruit wanting or not completely as in a 202 



202 a Shrub 6 ft. or less high, planted for the flowers 



Cydonia japomca. p i6S 

 b Trees, wild, or cultivated for the fruit 



Pyrus or Prunus. pp 167, 169 



203 a Cultivated shrub or small tree with ovate leaves 2-6 



in. long;fruit 1-2 in. long, 4-vfinged.Mohrodendron. p 198 

 b Trees or shrubs not completely as in a 204 



204 a Leaves 4 in. or more long, lanceolate, very coarsely 



toothed ; fruit a prickly bur Castanea. p 143 



b Leaves and fruit not completely as in a 205 



205 a Fruit fleshy, a berry-like drupe or pome % in. or less 



in diameter 206 



b Fruit wanting or not completely as in a 218 



206 a Leaves toothed only toward the apex, unequilateral at 



the base; fruit purplish or orange when ripe, sweet 



Celtis. p 144 

 b Leaves and fruit not completely as in a 207 



207 a Fruit black when ripe 208 



b Fruit red, blue, or purple when ripe 210 



208 a Fruit in umbels or corymbs, not in the axils of the 



leaves Aronia nigra. p 168 



b Fruit not in corymbs, usually in the axils of the leaves. . 209 



209 a Fruit usually solitary in the axils of the leaves 



Ilex glabra. p 181 

 b Fruit usually in clusters in the axils of the leaves 



Rhamnus. p 184 



210 a Fruit in the axils of the leaves 211 



b Fruit in panicles, cymes, or corymbs 212 



211 a Stalk of fruit i in. or more long Ilicioides. p 181 



b Stalk of fruit MJ in. or less long .Ilex, p 181 



212 a Fruit blue when ripe; leaves whitish beneath 



Cornus alternifolia. p 194 

 b Fruit red, yellow, or purplish when ripe 213 



213 a Cultivated species 214 



b Wild species 216 



214 a Leaves woolly beneath; fruit ovoid, about % in. long 



Sorbus aria, p 167 

 b Leaves not woolly beneath 215 



