154 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



thick, broadly elliptic or orbicular, very obtuse, and often truncate at the 

 apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, coarsely dentate above the mid- 

 dle. Flowers: white, in short racemes, rather dense; petals five, oblan- 

 ceolate, cuneate. Fruit: a globose pome, purple with a bloom, sweet. 



This is the low pearly-flowered shrub which grows on the 

 sandy banks and flats, and which the Indians call Saskatoon, 

 for its sweet purple berries form a staple article of food 

 with them during the months of July and August. It some- 

 what resembles the Western Choke Cherry, but its greenish- 

 white blossoms are larger and have long narrow petals ; also 

 its leaves are oval, with flattened ends, and are very coarsely 

 toothed above the middle, whereas those of the Western 

 Choke Cherry are oblong, pointed, and finely toothed all 

 round the edges. The bark of the little branches of the 

 Serviceberry is reddish, and the young leaves are quite pale 

 and downy underneath. 



Amelanchier Cusickii, or Thick-leaved Serviceberry, 

 grows on stony hillsides, and has, as its name denotes, 

 thicker leaves than the preceding species. 



WILD STRAWBERRY 



Fragaria glauca. Rose Family 



Stems: running, and forming new plants. Leaves: tufted from the 

 root, villous-pubescent with spreading hairs, long-petioled, palmately- 

 trifoliate ; leaflets oval, obtuse, dentate, the terminal one cuneate. 

 Flowers: of five petals, cymose ; scape with appressed pubescent and 

 generally glaucous leaves. Fruit: red, ovoid. 



Nearly every one will easily recognize the blossoms of the 

 Wild Strawberry plant. " Doubtless God could have made 

 a better berry, but doubtless God never did." This is 

 equally true of the fragrant scarlet fruits on the mountain 

 side as of their cultivated cousins in the garden. 



Fragaria bracteata, or Wood Strawberry, is a small 



