GREEN, GREENISH OR YELLOWISH FRUIT 



Fruit large (i). 

 Fniit small (2). 



1. Fruit large. 



May Apple {Podophyllum peltatmn). Barberry family. 

 Ht. I ft.; flower-stem with few large leaves; flower- 

 less stem ending in a large (i ft.) round, lohed leaf, 

 leaf -stalk inserted in the middle like an timhrella. 

 Fruit large, egg-shaped, yellowish, edible. Mid- 

 summer. 



Thorn Apple (Datura Stramonium) . Nightshade family. 

 Ht. several ft., a rank, bad smelling weed; leaves 

 rather large. Fruit somewhat egg-shaped, with 

 long prickles, growing from fork. ' 



Wild Balsam-apple {Echinocystis lobata) . Gourd family. 

 Tall annual, climbing by tendrils; leaves thin, with 

 5 lobes. Fruit green, 2 in. long, with delicate 

 prickles. 



2. Fruit small. 



Squaw Huckleberry (Vaccinium stamineiim). Heath 

 family. 

 Fine-hairy; widely branched; leaves egg-shaped or 

 oval, pale. Fruit a large rounded or pear-shaped 

 greenish or yellowish few-seeded berry, in raceme. 

 Early autumn. 



Ground Cherry (Physalis Virginiana). Nightshade 

 family. 

 Branched and spreading; leaves large and broad. 

 Fruit a yellow berry enveloped in calyx, solitary 

 on nodding stalks. 



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