1 L6 TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Amelanchier Canadensis, Medic. 



SHADBUSH. J I \ E-BERRY. 



Habitat and Range. - Dry, open woods, hillsides. 



Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to Lake Superior. 



New England, throughout. 



South to the Gulf of Mexico; west to Minnesota. Kansas, and 

 Louisiana. 



Habit. Shrub or small tree, 10-25 feet high, with a trunk 

 diameter of 6-10 inches, reaching sometimes a height of 40 feet 

 and trunk diameter of 18 inches ; head rather wide-spreading, 

 slender-branched, open ; conspicuous in early spring, while 

 other trees are yet naked, by its profuse display of loose 

 spreading clusters of white flowers, and the delicate tints of 

 the silky opening foliage. 



Bark. Trunk and large branches greenish-gray, smooth ; 

 branchlets purplish-brown, smooth. 



Winter Buds and Leaves. Buds small, oblong-conical, pointed. 

 Leaves 2-3^ inches long, about half as wide, slightly pubes- 

 cent when young, dark bluish-green above at maturity, lighter 

 beneath ; outline varying from ovate to obovate, finely and 

 sharply serrate ; apex pointed or mucronate, often abruptly 

 so ; base somewhat heart-shaped or rounded ; leafstalk about 

 1 inch long ; stipules slender, silky, ciliate, soon falling. 



Inflorescence. April to May. Appearing with the leaves 

 at the end of the branchlets in long, loose, spreading or droop- 

 ing, nearly glabrous racemes ; flowers large ; calyx 5-cleft, 

 campanulate, pubescent to nearly glabrous ; segments lanceo- 

 late, acute, reflexed ; petals 5, whole, narrow-oblong or oblong- 

 spatulate, about 1 inch long, two to three times the length 

 of the calyx ; stamens numerous ; ovary with style deeply 

 5-parted. 



Fruit. June to July. In drooping racemes, globose, pass- 

 ing through various colors to reddish, purplish, or black 

 purple, long-stemmed, sweet and edible without decided flavor. 



