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Pistils generally 6, making few-seeded pods. 



Petals broad : calyx open, 5-oleft. Shrubs or herbs, {SpircBa) MEADOW-swKEr. 



Petals lance-shaped : calyx narrow, 5-toothed. Herbs, ( Gillenia) Indiam-Phy sic. 



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



Petals 6, yellow : stamens 12 or more : calyx bur-like, {Agrimtmia) Agkimonk 



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



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



Flowers monoecious, in a head : stamens many, {Polerium) * Salad-Buknet. 



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



Petals B, yellow. Leaves of 3 leaflets, (Waldsfeima) Bakhen-Stbawbeery. 



Petals 5, white. Leaves simple, rounded-heart-shaped, (Dalibdrda) Dalibaeda. 



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



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



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



Akenes seed-hke ; the short style falling off. 



Receptacle of the fruit dry and small, (Potentilla) Cinquefoil. 



Receptacle of the fruit becoming very large and pulpy, (Fragaria) Stkawbeiiry. 



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



Calyx with an urn-shaped or globular closed tube and 6 lobes, (Rosa) Rose. 



in. 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 Shadbusii. 



Petals long and narrow. Fruit berry-like, its cells becoming 10, (Ameldnchier) June-berey 



Petals broad or rounded. 



Fruit drupe-like, containing 2 to 5 stones, ( CraCcegus) Hawthokn. 



Fruit with 3 to 5 parchment-like pips. 



Leaves pinnate ; fruit berry-like, scarlet when ripe, (Pyrus, ^ Sorbus) Mountain-Ash. 

 Leaves simple. 



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



dark red, mawkish, (Pyrus, § Adenbrachis) Chokeberry. 



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 Pyrus) * Fear. 



Cells of the fruit parchment-like and many-seeded, ( Cydbnia) * Quince. 



Cherry. Prmvus, § Cerasus, &o. 



* 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 Cheeey. 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 leaves, late in spring. Wild species. 



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



astringent dark crimson fruit, ripe in summer. P. Virgimana, 



