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Pomaceae 



Sorbus 

 sambucifolia 



(Cham, and 

 Schl.) Roem 



Western 

 Mountain- 

 ash. 



A small tree with smooth bark. 

 Leaves pinnate, leaflets 5-15, 

 ovate-lanceolate or oval, obtuse 

 or short-pointed, serrate, smooth 

 and dark green above, pale and 

 usually more or less hairy be- 

 neath, especially along the veins, 

 seldom over 2\ inches long. Flowers white, 

 nearly J an inch across in a compound flat 

 cyme, 2-4 inches broad; petals spreading, 

 short-clawed, obovate; stamens numerous; 

 fruit bright scarlet, more than J of an inch 

 in diameter. 



In moist stony ground throughout the 

 region; flowering in June. 



A shrub, soft-hairy when young, 

 at length nearly smooth. Leaves 

 thick, broadly elliptic or almost 

 orbicular, very obtuse and often 

 truncate at the apex, round or 

 subcordate at the base ; coarsely 

 dentate above the middle, 1-2 

 inches long. Flowers in rather short, dense 



Amelan- 

 chier 



alnifolia 

 Nutt. 

 North- 

 western 

 June-berry. 



