HARPERS GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Dwarf Thorn. Pear Thorn 



Crataegus tomentbsa — Family, Rose. Color, white. Calyx, a 

 tube with 5 points the length of the petals. Petals and styles, 5. 

 Stamens, many. Fruit, a yellowish, pear-shape pome, inclosing 5 

 hard seeds. Flowers, 1 to 3 or 4 in corymbs. Leaves, alternate, 

 inversely ovate, simple, thickish, shining above, slightly downy 

 along the veins underneath, petioled, lobed, finely toothed. Stem, 

 spiny, with thorns 1 to i\ inches long. May and June. 



The hawthorn division of the Rose Family contains many 

 beautiful trees, with fine, close foliage, and small, cherry-like 

 blossoms. The only one distinctively a shrub is the dwarf 

 thorn, from 3 to 6 feet high, growing in dry, sandy soil from 

 New Jersey southward. 



Bramble. Wild Red Raspberry 



Rubus idaeus, var. actxleatissimus, — Family, Rose. Color, white. 

 Leaves, 3 to 5-pinnately divided, on bristly petioles, the side leaf- 

 lots sessile, downy underneath. Calyx, sticky, bristly. Petals, 5, 

 "',11 falling. Flowers, in terminal or axillary long - pedicelled 

 clusters. Stem and branches covered with rigid prickles. Fruit, 

 red, composed of round, small, edible drupes, mounted on a 

 spongy receptacle, from which, later, they fall. 3 feet high or 

 less. May and July. Fruit ripe in August and September. 



Thickets, dry and rocky woods, in the mountains of North 

 Carolina, in New Jersey and northward. Some of our culti- 

 vated raspberries originated with this fruit. 



Black Raspberry. Thimbleberry. Black Cap 



R. occidentalis, — Color, white. Sepals, longer than the petals. 

 Flowers, in compact corymbs, terminal. Leaves, pinnately di- 

 vided into 3 leaflets, the latter ovate, doubly serrate, the side 

 leaflets sessile or short-stalked, white-downy underneath. Stems, 

 growing long, 10 feet or less, bending over and rooting at the tips, 

 very prickly. May and June. Fruit ripe in July. 



A common species, especially in New England. The 

 raspberry is an obliging little fruit, coming after the straw- 

 berry and consoling us for the departure of that " best berry 

 that the Lord ever made." Wild raspberries grow in rocky 

 land, up hillsides, along fence - rows, in all the Eastern 

 States, south to Georgia and Missouri. 



Mountain Blackberry. High Bush Blackberry 



R. altegheniensis. — Color, white. Leaves, of 3 to 5 leaflets; 

 when 5, radiating from a common center. Leaflets pointed, 



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