VINES AND SHRUBS 



are also the pedicels. Petals, 5, concave. Stamens, many, with 

 white filaments and purple anthers. Flowers, in compound cymes, 

 terminal, but, later, non-flowering shoots grow beyond them. Fruit, 

 size of a whortleberry, round or slightly elongated, red or pur- 

 plish, acid, dry and sweetish. Leaves, simple, alternate, 1 to 2 

 inches long, elliptical or ovate, finely toothed, with short petioles 

 and narrow stipules, smooth, glossy green, with dark glands along 

 the midribs. March to May. 



A shrub 3 to 7 feet high, growing in wet ground, as moist 

 thickets or swamps or damp woods, from New England to 

 Florida, westward to Louisiana, northward to Minnesota. 



June Berry. Service Berry. Shad Bush 



Amelanchier canadensis. — Family, Rose. Color, white. Leaves, 

 ovate, pointed, rounded or notched at base, finely toothed, 2 or 3 

 inches long, on petioles, pale green underneath. Stipules, long and 

 narrow, and with the bud-scales silky-downy, falling with the scales. 

 Calyx, 5-parted. Petals, 5, long, narrow, notched, tapering at 

 base. Stamens, many. Fruit, a dark-crimsoned, 10-seeded, edible 

 berry, with the calyx points remaining on the tip. The flowers 

 grow in spreading racemes, with leaves or bracts among them. 

 They come early in spring, their pure white contrasting prettily 

 with the pale-green, glossy, silky leaves and the pretty crimson 

 of the investing scales. They have a fishy smell. The name 

 shad bush refers to the time of the approach of the spring shad 

 in our waters. April and May. Fruit in June. 



This often attains the proportions of a small tree. It grows 

 in dry soil, in light woods or thickets, or along the roadsides. 



A. oblongifblia. — A shrub or small tree, with very whitish, 

 downy young leaves and racemes of flowers. Leaves, oblong, 

 oval, or elliptical, finely serrate, acute or rounded at each end, 

 pale green beneath, petioled. Flowers, smaller than the last, in 

 dense racemes. Fruit, round, juicy. 



Wet, swampy ground, in woods or rocky uplands, from 

 Virginia northward. 



A. oligocarpa. — A shrub, not so tall as the last two species. 

 2 to 9 feet high. Flowers, a few, 1 to 4, in a raceme, long-pedi- 

 celled. Fruit, dark purple, covered with a bloom, pear-shape. 

 Leaves, 1 to 3 inches long, thin, oblong or oval, acute at apex, 

 finely toothed, short -petioled. 



Found northward in cold swamps, in mountains and damp 

 woods. New England and Xew York, westward to Lake Superior. 



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