JUNE-BERRY 



JUNE-BERRY. SHAD BUSH. SERVICE-BERRY. 



Ameldnc/iier canadensis. 



Amclanchicr is derived from Amelancier, the popular name of the 

 European species. 



A medium sized tree with a tall slender trunk and small spreading 

 branches which form a narrow, oblong head. It ranges throughout 

 eastern United States, southward to Florida and westward to Min- 

 nesota. Prefers rich soil in upland woods. On the mountains 

 of North Carolina and Tennessee it reaches its greatest size. Roots 

 fibrous. 



Bark. — Pale red brown, divided into narrow ridges the surface of 

 which is scaly. Branchlets bright green, later become dark brown 

 or purplish brown, smooth. 



Wood. — Dark brown, sometimes tinged with red ; heavy, hard, 

 close-grained and strong. Sp. gr., 0.7838 ; weight of cu. ft., 48.85 

 lbs. 



Winter Buds. — Chestnut brown, acute, one - fourth of an inch 

 long. Inner scales enlarge with the growing shoot and are some- 

 times an inch long before they fall. 



Leaves. — Alternate, simple, ovate to ovate-oblong, three to four 

 inches long, one and a half to two inches broad, cordate or rounded 

 at base, serrate, acute or acuminate. Feather - veined, midrib 

 grooved above, prominent beneath. They come out of the bud 

 conduplicate, reddish brown and hairy, when full grown are smooth, 

 deep green above, paler beneath. In autumn they turn a bright 

 yellow. Petioles slender, grooved. Stipules lanceolate, downy, 

 early deciduous. 



Flowers. — April, when leaves are about one-third grown. Per- 

 fect, white, borne in racemes from three to five inches long. Each 

 flower has a slender pedicel, furnished with two lanceolate, purplish 

 silky bractlets which fall as the flower opens. 



Calyx. — Campanulate, five - lobed ; lobes lanceolate, acute, 

 downy, persistent, imbricate in bud. 



Corolla. — Petals five, white, strap-shaped, one-half inch to an 

 inch in length, inserted on the calyx tube, imlDricate in bud. 



Stamens . — Twenty, inserted on the calyx tube ; filaments per- 

 sistent in fruit ; anthers introrse, two-celled ; cells opening longi- 

 tudinally. 



Pistil.— Ovary two to five-celled, united to calyx tube. Styles 

 two to five, with broad stigmas ; ovules two in each cell. When 

 mature each cell has been divided by a cartilaginous partition, giv- 

 ing ten cells and one seed in each. 



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