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Rose (Rosacece) 



Leaves, simple, fine-toothed, downy beneath when young, 

 marked with small reddish warts along the midvein 

 above, oval to reverse egg-shape. Apex, pointed or 

 blunt. 



Fruit, dark red or purple, about the size of a small cur- 

 rant, rounded or pear-shaped, with five cells and ten 

 seeds, puckery. A berry-like pome. 



Found, in damp ground, often forming extensive thickets, 

 common from Nova Scotia to Florida, and westward. 



A vigorous shrub, five to eight feet high. 



Fig. 41. Dogberry. P. mgra (Marsh), Sargent. (P. arbutifblia 



var. melanocdrpa, Hook.) 



This variety differs from the preceding chiefly in these 

 items : 

 Sepals, Flower-stems, and Leaves, all smooth or nearly so. 



Fruit, larger, black, less puckery often mistaken by 

 the children for large huckleberries ; ripening earlier. 



Found, often in dry as well as wet ground. 

 A shrub one to four feet high. 



FROM NOTE BOOK : 

 I. " What do you call that, boys ? " 

 Two BOYS. " Dogberry. It ain't good to eat ! " 

 I. It is n't poisonous, is it ? " 

 Two BOYS. Yes, 't is. 



Where the boys found that name I do not know, nor 

 do I know their reasons for thinking the berry poisonous. 

 They may have experimented, or, as men sometimes do 

 in greater matters, they may simply have repeated a 

 slanderous tradition. I remember that as a boy I often 



