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Pistils generally 5, making few-seeded pods. 



Petals broad: calyx open, 5-cleft. Shrubs or herbs, (Spirisa) Meadow-sweet. 



Petals lanoe-sliaped: calyx narrow, 5-toothed. Herbs, (Gilimia) Indiah-Physic. 



Pistils only one or two, making akenes, enclosed in the narrow-mouthed tube of the calyx. 



Petals 5, yellow : stamens 12 or more : calyx bur-like, (Agnmtmia) Agkijiomy. 



Petals none; but the 4 spreading lobes of the smooth calyx petal-like. 



Flowers perfect, in a spike: stamens 4, long (white), (Sanguisdrba) Burnet. 



Flowers moncecious, in a head: stamens many, {Poierium) * Salad-Buknet. 



Pistils 3 to 10, making akenes: stamens many. (Stemless herbs.) 



Petals 5, yellow. Leaves of 3 leaflets, ( Waldsteinia) Baeeen-Steawbekkt. 



Petals 5, white. Leaves simple, rounded-heai't-shaped, {Dalibdrda) Dalibakda. 



Pistils many, making akenes, or in Bramble berry-like in fruit. 



Calyx open, with 5 additional outer lobes (making 10) or 6 accessory teeth. 



Akenes tipped with a long feathery or hooked or twisted tail (style), (Geum) Avens. 



Akenes seed-like ; the short style falling off. 



Receptacle of the fruit dry and small, (Poientilla) Cisquefoil. 



Receptacle of the fruit becoming very large and pulpy, {Fragaria) Stkawbeery. 



Calyx open, flat, 5-lobed. Ovaries in a head, becoming berry-hke, (Rubus) Bramble. 



Calyx with an urn-shaped or globular closed tube and 5 lobes, {Mosa) Rose. 



IIL PEAR Subfamily. Pistils 2 to 5, their styles more or less separate, their ovaries united with 



each other and with the thick tube of the calyx which encloses them and makes a fleshy fruit {pome). 



Stipules free from the leafstalk. Trees or shrubs. 



Cells of the fruit containing only one or two seeds. [or Shadbush. 



Petals long and narrow. Fruit beny-like. Its cells becoming 10, (Amelcinchier) Juhe-berey 



Petals broad or rounded. 



Fruit drupe-like, containing 2 to o stones, ( Craicegus) Hawthorn. 



Fruit with 3 to 5 parchment-like pips. 



Leaves pinnate: fruit berry-like, scarlet when ripe, (Pyrus, § Sorbus) Mouktais-Ash. 

 Leaves simple. laN" 



Flowers small in compound cymes: fruit snmll, berry-like, black or 



dark red, mawkish, {Pyrus, § Adenorachis) Chokebeery. 



Flowers large in simple clusters or umbels: fruit fleshy. 



Petals tinged with red or rose: fruit sunk in at both ends, (Pyrus, ^ Mains) Apple. 



Petals white: fruit tapering into the stalk, (True Ps/i-Ms) *Peak. 



Cells of the fruit parchment-like and many-seeded, ( Cydimia) * QuisCE. 



Cherry. "^Prunus, § Cerasus^ &c. 



* Flowers, like those of Plums, two or more together on separate footstalks from separate lateral buds, 



appearing at the same time with the leaves. 



1. Cultivated Cheery: several varieties are commonly cultivated of the European, P. Cerasus. 



2. Wild Red Cheery. A small tree, with bright-green narrow leaves, and small light-red sour fruit. 



Common in rocky woods, &c. P, Pennsylvdnica. 



* * Flowers in hanging racemes, appearing after the le^Ves, late in spring. Wild species. 



3. ■Choke Cheery. Shrub or small tree, with gray branches, broad and sharply serrate leaves, and 



astringent dark crimson fruit, ripe in summer. Virginiana. 



