248 THE APPLE FAMILY. 



flattened than those of the narrow-leaved crab. Although very sour they 

 make readily into preserves and jellies of excellent quality. 



BLACK CHOKEBERRYo 



Ardni'a n)gra. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Apple, White. Scentless. Florida fiorthward. March-June. 



Flowers : small, growing in terminal compound, glabrous cymes. Calyx : urn- 

 shaped, with five j^ointed lobes. Corolla : with fil'e, rounded, spreading petals. 

 Stamens : numerous. Styles : three to five. Fruit : a small purplish black pome. 

 Leaves : simple, with short petioles and a j^air of small stipules ; oval, long 

 pointed at the apex ; pointed or rounded at the base ; finely serrate ; glabrous. 



This small shrub with its greyish purple or reddish twigs grows 

 sometimes to a height of twelve feet and is found in low woods, or swamps. 

 Through the AUeghanies, however, and on such peaks as Mount Mitchell and 

 Roan mountain it ascends as high as six thousand feet above the sea level. 

 A peculiarity of its small purplish black pomes is that they are not at all in- 

 dented or hollowed at their bases. This species and the one which follows 

 are the only members of the genus. 



A. arbutifblla, red chokeberry or dogberry tree, although a very similar 

 shrub to the one preceding, bears fruit which when ripe is a bright red. On 

 the cymes and under surfaces of the leaves also there is a white tomentum. 

 These peculiarities, combined with the fruit's colour, afford ample means 

 for its identification. 



SHAD=BUSH. SWAMP SUGAR=PEAR. 



Ameldnchicr Boh'yapiiini. 



FAMILY COLOUR HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Apple. White. lo-^o/cct. Florida and Louisiana to April, May. 



New Brujiswick, Fruit: June^ July. 



Flotaers : large ; growing profusely in terminal racemes and appearing with the 

 leaves. Pedicels : woollv. Calyx : vvith five, pointed lobes which become glabrous 

 with age. Corolla: with five oblanceolate, or linear-spatulate petals, often three- 

 fourths of an inch long, entire. Stamens : numerous, on the throat of the calyx. 

 Styles : two to five, pubescent at the base. Fruit : dark blue, or reddish, globose 

 pomes showing the persistent calyx lobes at their summit. Leaves: with long, 

 woolly petioles ; ovate, or oval, ])ointed at the base ; finely serrate ; bright green 

 and glabrous above, covered underneath with a dense, white tomentum at least 

 when young. A shrub, or small tree with greyish or reddish twigs. 



Full of strength and beauty seem to be the soft sheets of bloom spread 

 by the shad-bush as in earliest spring it awakes from its winter's sleep. 

 The foliage then, however, has a tender look from the dense white wool 



