112 TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ro.MACK.K. APPLE FAMILY. 



Trees or shrubs ; Leaves simple or pinnate, most ly alternate. 

 with stipules freefrom the Leafstalk and usually soon falling; 

 flowers regular, perfect ; calyx 5-lobed ; calyx-tube adnate to 



ovary ; petals 5, inserted on the disk which lines the calyx- 

 tube ; stamens usually many, distinct, inserted with the 

 petals ; carpels of the ovary 1-5, partially or entirely united 

 with each other; ovules 1-2 in each carpel ; styles 1-5; fruit 

 a fleshy pome, often berry -like or drupe-like, formed by con- 

 solidation of the carpels with the calyx-tube. 



Pyrus. Malus. Amelanchier. Crataegus. 



Pyrus Americana, DC. 



Sorbus Americana, Marsh. 



Mountain Ash. 



Habitat and Range. River banks, cool woods, swamps, and 

 mountains. 



Newfoundland to Manitoba. 



Maine, -- common ; New Hampshire, - -common along the 

 watersheds of the Connecticut and Merrimac rivers and on 

 the slopes of the White mountains; Vermont, - -abundant 

 far up the slopes of the Green mountains ; Massachusetts, 

 Gray lock, Wachusett, Watatic, and other mountainous 

 regions ; rare eastward ; Rhode Island and Connecticut, 

 occasional in the northern sections. 



South, iu cold swamps and along the mountains to North Caro- 

 lina ; west to Michigan and Minnesota. 



Habit. A small tree, 15-20 feet high, often attaining in 

 the woods of northern Maine and on the slopes of the White 

 mountains a height of 25-30 feet, with a trunk diameter 

 of 12-15 inches ; reduced at its extreme altitudes to a low 

 shrub ; head, in open ground, pyramidal or roundish ; branches 

 spreading and slender. 



