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Fruit when ripe roundish, yellow, 

 pulpy and edible ; astringent when 

 green, the 4-lobed calyx persistent 

 at its base; seed several, flat ; fields, (p. 68.) Persimmon. 



(2) LEAVES LOBKD, OR TOOTHED ON THE MARGIN. 



Fruit pulpy or fleshy, as in apple or cherry. 



Leaves often lobed ; twigs armed with 

 stout thorns ; fruit a small sour apple 

 one inch in diameter, yellow when 

 ripe; flowers pink, sweet-scented. 



2 kinds of Crab Apple 1 . 



Leaves variously lobed or toothed, 

 twigs often armed with long slender 

 thorns ; buds very small ; flowers 

 white, about | inch in diameter in 

 large, flat-topped clusters, in spring ; 

 fruit, berry -like, orange or red, in clus- 

 ters ; small trees with bark of trunk 

 scaly or pealing off in thin sheets or 



scaly several kinds of Red (Haw) Thorn 2 . 



Leaves silky-hairy beneath ; the edible 

 red fruit small and berry-like ; bark 



smooth and white, (p. 60.) Service Tree. 



Bark of trees bitter to taste ; leaves 

 smooth, finely and sharply toothed ; 

 fruit one -seeded. 



Fruit a black cherry ; flowers in a 



drooping raceme at the end of the 



twig; frequent, (p. 59.) Wild Black Cherry. 



Fruit a red cherry ; flowers in slen- 

 der, long stemmed clusters along 



the sides of the twig ; occurs only on 



highest mountains, (p. 58.) Wild Red Cherry. 



Flowers in long-stemmed clusters 



along the sides of twig ; fruit red or 



yellow when ripe, about | inch long ; 



seed flattened ; small trees, some- 

 times with thorny branches ; fields, 



waste places or along streams 



2 kinds of Wild Plum 3 . 



Bark of tree often with corky out- 

 growths ; fruit a small 1-seeded sweet 

 berry ; leaves thin and nearly smooth, 

 tapering to a sharp point, unequal 

 sided; chiefly along streams, (p. 80.) Hackberry. 



Fruit various, either a nut or dry. 



A. Leaves over three times as long as broad. 



Leaves green beneath and not hairy, finely 

 toothed, long and narrow, i to i inch 

 broad ; twigs brittle, yellow or red ; com- 

 mon along streams and wet places, except 

 in the coastal plain where it is largely 

 replaced by the next. (p. 116.) Black Willow. 



iPyrus coronaria, Linnaeus ana C. angustifolia, Aiton. 



^ Species of Crataegus. 



3Prunus americana, Marshall and P. angusrilolla, Marshall. 



