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Pistils generally 5, making few-seeded pods. 
Petals broad: calyx open, 5-cleft. Shrubs or herbs, (Spirea) MEADOW-SWEET. 
Petals lance-shaped: calyx narrow, 5-toothed. Herbs, (Gillénta) InDIAN-PHyYsIc. 
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, (Agrimonia) AGRIMONY. 
Petals none; but the 4 spreading lobes of the smooth calyx petal-like. 
Flowers perfect, in a spike: stamens 4, long (white), (Sanguisérba) BURNET. 
Flowers moneecious, in a head: stamens many, (Potérium) * SaLaD-BURNET. 
Pistils 3 to 10, making akenes: stamens many. (Stemless herbs.) 
Petals 5, yellow. Leaves of 3 leaflets, ( Waldsteinia) BARREN-STRAWBERRY. 
Petals 5, white. Leaves simple, rounded-heart-shaped, (Dalibérda) DALIBARDA. 
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-like; the short style falling off. . 
Receptacle of the fruit dry and small, ‘i (Potentilla) CinquEFor. 
Receptacle of the fruit becoming very large and pulpy, (Fragaria) STRAWBERRY. 
Calyx open, flat, 5-lobed. Ovaries in a head, becoming berry-like, (Rubus) BRAMBLE. ” 
Calyx with an urn-shaped or globular closed tube and 5 lobes, (Rosa) Rose. 
Ill. PEAR Susramity. Pistils 2 to 5, their styles more or less separate, their ovaries united with 
each other and with the thick tube of the aus which encloses them and makes a fleshy fruit (ome). 
Stipules free from the leafstalk. Trees or shrubs. 
Cells of the fruit containing only one or two seeds. [or SuapBusn. 
Petals long and narrow. Fruit berry-like, its cells becoming 10, (Ameldnchier) JUNE-BERRY 
Petals broad or rounded. 
Fruit drupe-like, containing 2 to 5 stones, ‘ ( Crategus) HawTHORN. 
Fruit with 8 to5 parchment-like pips. 
Leaves pinnate: fruit berry-like, scarlet when ripe, (Pyrus, § Sorbus) Mounrarn-Asu. 
Leaves simple. 
Flowers small in compound cymes: fruit small, berry-like, black or 
dark red, mawkish, (Pyrus, § Adendrachis) CHOKEBERRY. 
Flowers large in simple clusters or umbels: fruit fleshy. 
Petals tinged with red or rose: fruit sunk in at both ends, (Pyrus, § Malus) APPLE. 
Petals white: fruit tapering into the stalk, (True Pyrus) * Pra. 
Cells of the fruit parchment-like and many-seeded, ( Cydonia) * Quince. 
% Cherry. Prunus, § Cérasus, &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 CuERRY: several varieties are commonly cultivated of the European, P. Cerasus. 
2. Witp Rep Cuerry. A small tree, with bright-green narrow leaves, and small light-red sour fruit. 
Common in rocky woods, &c. P. Pennsylvcnica. 
* * Flowers in hanging racemes, appearing after the leaves, late in spring. Wild species. 
8 CHokE CuHEerry. Shrub or small tree, with gray branches, | broad and sharply serrate leaves, and 
astringent dark crimson fruit, ripe in summer. P. Vii ‘ginidna. 
