488 WILD FLOWERS OF 



Dewberry (Rubus ccesius), fruit blue. 



" as if begloss'd with dew, 

 Shining dim-powdered with a downy blue." 

 Stone Bramble (R. saxatilis), fruit crimson. 

 Wild Roses (Rosa canina var. species}, light red to vermillion. 

 Burnet Rose (Rosa spinosissima), fruit purple-black. 

 Hawthorn (Cratcsgus Oxyacantha), berries red. 

 Cotoueaster (C. vulgaris), berries scarlet. 

 Crab (Pyrus malus), fruit deep red. 



" Crabs sun-reddened with a tempting cheek." CLARE. 

 Wild Service (Pyrus torminalis), fruit brown. 

 Mountain Ash or Rowan (P. aucuparia), fruit bright orange to 



scarlet. 



" The scarlet Rowan seems to mock 

 The red sea coral-berries, leaves and all; 

 Light swinging from the moist green shining rock, 

 Which beds the foaming torrent's turbid fall." 



Hon. Mrs. NORTON. 



White Beam Tree (Pyrus Aria), fruit at first downy arid dusky- 

 brown, at length red. 



Ivy (Hedera Helix), berries at first green, then brownish, finally 

 smooth and black. 



" Dark creeping Ivy, with thy berries brown, 

 That fondly twists on ruins all thine own." 

 Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea), berries black. 

 Mistletoe (Viscum album), berries white. 

 Dwarf Elder (Sambucus Ebulus), berries deep purple or shining 



black. 



Common Elder (S. nigra), berries raven-purple. 

 Mealy Way-faring Tree (Viburnum Lantana), berries at first red, 



finally purplish black. 

 Common Guelder-rose (Viburnum opulus), berries bright orange 



to waxen red. 



Honeysuckle (Lonicera Periclymenum), berries red. 

 " The woodbine trees red berries bear 



That clustering hang upon the bower ; 

 While, fondly lingering here and there, 



Peeps out a dwindling sickly flower." CLARE. 



Bilberry (Vaccinium Myrtillus), berries blueish, or glaucous 

 black. 



" Pinch the maids as blue as bilberry." 



Cowberry (V. Vitis-Idcea), berries red. 



