40 HOW TO KNOW WILD FRUITS 



bruised, have an aromatic odor which, to some, 

 is very disagreeable. It belongs to a family 

 which includes such plants as the Camphor and 

 Cinnamon. Its home is in damp woods. North 

 Carolina, Tennessee, and Kansas limit its south- 

 ern range. 



HAWTHORN OR NORTHERN GOOSE- 

 BERRY 

 Ribes oxyacanthoides Gooseberry Family 



Fruit. The reddish purple berry is round or 

 round-ovoid, smooth, and covered with a bloom. 

 Like the other species, it keeps the dried calyx 

 at the summit, and has similar seeds. July, 

 August. 



Leaves. The leaves are deeply three- to five- 

 lobed, with the lobes toothed and cut. The base 

 of the leaf is heart-shaped or wedge-shaped. 



Flowers. The greenish or purplish flowers 

 grow .in few-flowered clusters, on short pedicels. 



This is a low, usually smooth, shrub, with 

 crooked or reclined branches. When prickles 

 occur, they are scattered, and the spines, if any, 

 grow singly or in threes. The plant grows in 

 wet woods as far south as New Jersey and west 



