RED FRUIT 
GROUP I 
Shrubs. Opposite Leaves 
Indian Currant (Symphoricarpos orhiculatus) . Honey- 
suckle family. 
A shrub with maximum height of five feet, its stem at first 
upright, later curved by the weight of the fruit. Leaves oval, 
not toothed, blunt-pointed, short-stalked. Fruit a small, ovoid 
berry, growing in short clusters, practically without stallcs, in 
the axils of the leaves, remaining through the winter; two bony 
nutlets. New Jersey, West and South. Autumn. The generic 
name is from the Greek for fruit borne together. 
Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida). Dogwood family. 
A shrub or small tree with broadly oval, pointed leaves with 
stalks. Fruit oval, closely clustered at the ends of long stalks. 
I understand this to be the fruit that Bacon calls " cornelians." 
Early autumn. 
The Flowering Dogwood is very common in the open woods 
farther south than New England. This is the tree whose 
decorative white blossoms with four (apparent) white petals, 
brighten the woods of early spring, for example, along the 
Pennsylvania railway, just as the dainty blossoms of the Shad- 
bush {Amelayichier) announce the opening of the season farther 
north. 
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