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in June or July, oval and red; stone double convex, about 1.5 cm. 

 (3/^ inch) long, half as thick, oval in outline, one side having a groove 

 on each face near the edge. 



Distribution. Newfoundland throughout the valley of the St. 

 Lawrence, west to Manitoba, south to Massachusetts, Indiana and 

 ^linnesota. In Indiana it has been noted only in Wells County 

 where it was found in two stations about 6 miles apart in wet woods. 

 In one location it was a shrub and in the other it was a small tree 

 about 1 dm. (4 inches) in diameter. The distribution of the spe- 

 cies is to the north and its appearance in this State is exceptional. 



The pubHshed records of the distribution are: Wells (Deam). 



Economic uses. Too rare to be of any importance. 



2. PADUS. The Wild Cherries. 



Padus serotina (Ehrhart) Agardh. Wild Cherry. Wild Black 

 Cherry. Cherry. (Prunus serotina Ehrhart). Plate 101. Bark 

 on young trees smooth, becoming on old trees irregularly fissured 

 and separating in small scaly plates, dark reddish-bro'^Ti ; branch- 

 lets slender, pale green at first, becoming a gray or reddish-brown; 

 winter buds conic, acute, smooth, scales about the color of the 

 branches or redder; leaves oval to lanceolate-oblong, 6-12 cm. (2}^- 

 5 inches) long, generally drawn to a long point at the apex, wedge- 

 shaped or rarely rounded at the base, finely serrated with incurved 

 glandular teeth, hairy below when they unfold, becoming at ma- 

 turity firm, smooth and dark green above, somewhat paler and 

 smooth beneath, becoming a yellow-green before falling; petioles 

 1-2 cm. iYs-"^ inch) long, usually bearing from 1-5 glands; flowers 

 in racemes about 1 dm. (4 inches) long, appearing in May 

 when the leaves are half grown; fruit ripens in July and August, 

 globose, about 8 mm. (^ inch) in diameter, dark purple or black. 



Distribution. Nova Scotia and South Dakota south to Florida 

 and west to Texas. It is well distributed throughout Indiana. In 

 the original forest it was rather infrequent, but has become fre- 

 quent along fences, outnumbered only by the black walnut. In 

 the original forest it grew to be a very tall and generally quite a 

 large tree but frequently with a somewhat crooked trunk. It 

 prefers a rather moist, rich and porous soil, although it adapts 

 itself well to all kinds of soil and conditions which may be seen 

 from its distribution along fences. It is most commonly associ- 

 ated with beech, sugar maple, white ash and linn. 



The published records of the distribution are: Cass (Benedict 

 and Elrod); Clark (Baird and Taylor) and (Smith); Daviess (Clem- 



