BED OR liEDDISII PURPLE 71 



SERVICE BERRY. JUNEBERRY. MAY 

 CHERRY 



Amelanchier Canadensis Apple Family 



Fruit. — The berrylike pomes vary in color 

 from a red to an almost violet-blue. They are 

 covered with a slight bloom. The calyx lobes, 

 at the summit, inclose several dried filaments. 

 The ovary is five-celled with two ovules to a cell, 

 but as the fruit develops a false partition growls 

 between the two ovules of each cell, making the 

 fruit ten-celled w^ith one seed in each, if all the 

 ovules develop. The fruits are generally globose, 

 and grow in racemes on rather long, slender 

 stems. They are sweet and delicious in flavor. 

 They ripen in June ; hence the name of June- 

 berry. 



Leaves. — The ovate or ovate-oblong leaves 

 are sharply toothed, rounded or heart-shaped at 

 the base, and acute at the tip. When young 

 they are hairy, but become smooth. 



Floioers. — The white flowers, with their strap- 

 shaped petals, grow in loose, drooping racemes at 

 the ends of branchlets. 



This species is a tree from ten to thirty feet in 



