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grown on slender pedicels '-!' long, in erect or nodding glabrous racemes 3'-4' long; 

 calyx cainpanulate, with lanceolate acute lobes, villous on the inner surface; petals 

 strap-shaped or slightly obovate, rounded or acute at the apex, thin, ^' to nearly 1' 

 long, \'-\' wide. Fruit ripening in early summer, depressed-globose, '-' broad, 





on elongated slender stems conspicuously marked by the scars of the fallen bractlets, 

 bright red when fully grown, becoming dark purple and covered with a glaucous 

 bloom when ripe; seeds ^' long, with a dark red-brown opaque coat. 



A tree, sometimes 40-50 high, with a tall trunk 12'-18' in diameter, small 

 spreading branches forming a narrow oblong round-topped head, and slender branch- 

 lets, at first light green and glabrous or slightly puberulous, dark red marked by 

 numerous pale lenticels in their first winter, later becoming dark brown or reddish 

 brown. Winter-buds \' long, with pale chestnut-brown ovate apiculate slightly 

 pubescent scales, those of the inner ranks becoming lanceolate, acute, bright red above 

 the middle, ciliate, with silky hairs, and sometimes V long when fully grown. 

 Bark \'-\' thick, pale red-brown, divided by shallow fissures into narrow longitudi- 

 nal ridges, and covered by small square persistent scales. Wood heavy, exceedingly 

 hard, strong, close-grained, dark brown often tinged with red, with thick lighter 

 colored sapwood of 4050 layers of annual growth; occasionally used for the handles 

 of tools and other small implements. 



Distribution. Upland woods in rich soil; Newfoundland, through the maritime 

 provinces of Canada, and westward along the shores of the Great Lakes, ranging 

 southward to northern Florida and westward to Minnesota, eastern Nebraska, east- 

 ern Kansas, and southern Arkansas. A form with acuminate leaves cordate or rarely 

 rounded at the base and pale-tomentulose below even at maturity (var. tomentula, 

 Sarg., nov. war.) is referred provisionally to this species. Vermont (Ferrisburg, C. E. 

 Faxon, June, 1881) to Ontario, and to Delaware, central Georgia, Missouri, and 

 eastern Louisiana. 



Often cultivated as an ornament of gardens. 



2. Amelanchier obovalis, Ashe. Shad Bush. Service Berry. 



Leaves oblong to broadly elliptical, acute or rounded at the apex, finely serrate, 

 with slender incurved teeth except at the rounded or subcordate base, when they 



