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stems springing from the axils of the leaves. The fruit is large, juicy 

 and spicy. Although this species does not seem to have entered into 

 any of our cultivated varieties of dewberries, it is surely worthy of a 

 trial. 



The swamp dewberry keeps company with the blood-thirsty sun- 

 dew {Drosera), the swamp polygala (Polygala sanguinea) and the 

 haughty grasspink (Calopogon pidchellus). The long, thin stem 

 usually beset with numerous bristles trails along the ground. The 

 small greenish-white flowers are borne on a few-flowered raceme. 



Fig. 82.— The Smooth Juneberrv. 



The reddish-black fruit is small and very seedy. This is the only 

 blackberry that we have that is not worthy of cultivation. Hybrids 

 between this and the running blackberry are very common. 



The juneberries (Amelayichier) are a deserving group which has 

 been neglected. The common juneberry (A. canadensis (L.) Medicus) 

 is one of the first of our trees to bloom in the spring, the flowers appear- 

 ing before the leaves have unfolded. A tree in full bloom is a glorious 

 sight. According to K. M. Wiegand of Cornell, who has determined 

 most of the juneberry specimens in our herbarium, six species are 

 found in Wisconsin. These can be divided into three groups — the 



