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Fruit when ripe roundish, yellow, 

 pulpy and edible ; astringent when 

 green, the 4-lobed calyx persistent 

 at its batie ; seed several, flat ; fields, (p. 68.) Persimmon. 



(3) LEAVES LOBKD, OR TOOTHED ON THE MARGIN. 



Fruit pulpy or fleshy, as in apple or cherry. 



Leaves often lobed ; twigs armed with 

 stout thorns ; fruit a small sour apple 

 one inch in diameter, yellow when 

 ripe; flowers pink, sweet-scented. 

 2 kinds of Crab Applet. 



Leaves variously lobed or toothed, 

 twigs often armed witli long slender 

 thorns ; buds very small ; flowers 

 white, about i inch in diameter in 

 large, flat-topped clusters, in spring ; 

 fruit, berry-like, orange or red, in clus- 

 ters ; small trees with bark of trunk 

 scaly or pealing off in thin sheets or 



scaly several kinds of Red (Haw) Thorns 



Leaves silky-hairy beneath ; the edible 

 red fruit small and berry-like ; bark 



smooth and white, (p. 60.) Service Tree. 



Bark of trees bitter to taste ; leaves 

 smooth, finely and sharply toothed ; 

 fruit one -seeded. 



Fruit a black cherry; flowers in a 



di'ooping raceme at the end of the 



twig; frequent, (p. 59.) Wild Black Cherry. 



Fruit a red cherry ; flowers in slen- 

 der, long stemmed clusters along 



the sides of the twig ; occurs only on 



highest mountains.'^ (p. 58.) Wild Red Cherry. 



Flowers in long-stemmed clusters 



along the sides of twig ; fruit red or 



yellow when ripe, about i inch long ; 



seed flattened ; small trees, some- 

 times with thorny branches ; fields, 



waste places or along streams 



2 kinds of Wild Plum^. 



Bark of tree often with corky out- 

 growths ; fruit a small 1-seeded sweet 

 berry; leaves thin and nearly smooth, 

 tapering to a sharp point, unequal 

 sided; chiefly along streams, (p. 80.) Hackberry. 



Fruit various, either a nut or dry. 



A. Leaves over three times as long as broad. 



Leaves green beneath and not hairy, flnely 

 toothed, long and narrow, i to i inch 

 broad ; twigs brittle, yellow or red ; com- 

 mon along streams and wet places, except 

 in the coastal plain where it is largely 

 replaced by the next. (p. 116.) Black Willow. 



iPyrus coronaria. Linwjeus and C. angustifolia, Alton. 



2Species of Crataegus. 



sPrunus araericana, Mirshall and P. angusritolia, Mai-shalL 



