66 HOW TO KNOW WILD FRUITS 



European, which is the one usually grown on 

 lawns. Our native tree has a darker bark, 

 smoother leaves and stem, more sharply toothed 

 leaves, and darker, smaller fruit. The tree is 

 more slender in its growth. 



The range is from Newfoundland to moun- 

 tains of North Carolina, west to Michigan and 

 Minnesota. 



Soi^hus samhucifolia {Pyrus samhucifolia of 

 Gray) is much like the preceding but with 

 smaller cymes and larger fruit and flowers. It 

 is a more northern tree, northern New England 

 limiting its southern range. It occurs near 

 Lake Superior and westward. 



RED CHOKEBERRY. DOGBERRY 



Aronla arbutifolia. Pyrus arbutifolia Apple Family 



Fruit. — The fruit grows in an erect cymelike 

 cluster. Each pome, small and berrylike though 

 it be, shows its resemblance to an apple in the 

 calyx teeth and the dried stamens which it bears 

 at the apex. A vertical section shows the 

 " core," and a cross section the five cells with 

 their normally two seeds. The flesh is reddish or 



