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5. Leaves simple, entire or toothed; small flowers 
axillary and solitary; calyx tube-cylindrical; peetals 
none; carpels solitary, rarely 2, - CERCOCAPUS. 
6. Leaves with linear lobes; showy flowers on long 
peduncles and some what panicled; calyx-tube turbi- 
nate; petals 5; carpels numerous, - - FALLUGIA. 
B. Herbs; calyx bracteolate; carpels few to many ; 
stamens and achenes numerous, the latter heaped on a 
dry receptacle. 
7. Petals yellow, rarely white, sessile; stamens usual- 
ly 20 or more; leaves pinnate or digitate; leaflets 
toothed or cleft, not confluent, - - POTENTILLA. 
G. Asm (B) but the receptacle large fleshy ank 
scarlet. 
8. Carpels very numerous, style lateral, leaves 3 
foliate, - - - -  FRAGARIA. 
STI. Ovaries inferior or inclosed in the calyx tube. 
Trrpe v. Rosear. Prickly shrubs, with pinnate 
leaves; petals conspicuous; stamens numerous; pistils 
many, becoming bony achenes, and inclosed in the glo- 
bose or urn-shaped calyx-tube which resembles a pome. 
des Beis - - SiNhivin Wiebe > OBA. 
TrispE vi. Pomerat. Trees or shrubs with stipules 
free from the petioles, carpels 2-5, inclosed in and coa- 
lescent with the fleshy or berry-like calyx, in fruit be- 
coming a 2 to several-celled pome. Apple tribe. 
10. Ovary 5-celled the cells 2-ovuled and 2-seeded 
but in fruit each divided into 2 by a partition from the 
back; styles 3-5, - - -  AMELANCHIER. 
i PRunus, Penis Cherry, 
P. pemissa, Walpers. (Wild Cherry). An_ erect 
slender shrub, 2 to 12 ft. high; leaves ovate or ob- 
long, apruptly acuminate, mostly rounded and some- 
what cordate at base, sharply serrate, usually more or 
less pubescent beneath; fruit purplish, black or red, 
sweet and edible but somewhat astringent. Bear 
Canon. 
2. Sprrea, L. Meadow-Sweet 
S. piscotor, Parsh, var. puMosa, Watson. <A dif- 
fuse pubescent shrub, 1-3 ft. high; leaves usually small, 
ovate, cuneate into a short miargined petiole, nearly 
smooth above, often white tomentose beneath, pinnati- 
fidly toothed or lobed; panicle somewhat diffuse and 
tomentose. A handsome plant widely distributed in 
the mountains. 
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