FLESHY BUSH FRUITS 



Cowberry, Vacclniiim. — Dark red, acid and bitter. 

 High elevations. 



Cranberry, Oxycocciis. — Bright red. In bogs and 

 swamps. 



Flowering Dogwood, Corniis. — Bright red, clustered in 

 the axils of leaves. 



Harmless Sumachs, Rhus. — A hairy stone-fruit, acid, 

 borne in terminal clusters, persistent as r£d spikes 

 all winter. 



Hawthorns, Cratagus. — Pomes, little apples, most of 

 them dull scarlet. 



High Bush Cranberry, Viburnum. — Bright red. 



Hollies, Ilex. — Bright red. 



Maple Leaved Arrowwood, Viburnum. — Crimson, turn- 

 ing purple-black. 



Matrimony Vine, Lyciunt. — Orange-red. 



Partridgeberry, Mitchella. — Bright red, a double berry. 



Red Bearberry, Arctostaphylos. — Deep red. 



Red Chokeberry, Pyrus. — Red varying to purple. 



Red Raspberry, Rubus. — Aggregate fruit, translucent. 



Roses, Rosa. — Hips, varied reds. 



Spicebush, Benzoin. — Red, stalk not thickened. Gleam- 

 ing, translucent, red berries. 



Winterberry, Ilex. — Two Winterberries glorify the 

 swamps and cast a ruddy glow over the fields where 

 they abide from leaf fall to midwinter. They are 

 little bushes, one of them known as Black Alder, 

 inconspicuous through all the summer days — but 

 when October comes the Winterberry stands 



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