RED FRUIT 
Fly Honeysuckle (Lomcera canadensis). Honeysuckle 
family. 
A shrub averaging four feet in height, with blunt-pointed 
leaves, egg-shaped, not toothed. Fruit ovoid berries growing 
in pairs, on the ends of stalks from the axils. Early summer. 
Red-berried Elder (Sambucus racemosa). Honeysuckle 
family. 
A branching shrub averaging six or eight feet in height. The 
compound leaves have five to seven leaflets, toothed, oblong. 
Fruit (drupe) bright-red, berry-like, in pyramidal terminal 
cluster. Early summer. This is less common than the plant 
that bears the dark purple " Elderberries," known to the 
domestic wine press. 
GROUP II 
Shrubs. Leaves Alternate. 
Hawthorn ( CratcBgus rotundifolia) (from the Greek for 
strength). Rose family. 
A shrub or small tree, with leaves thick and shiny, inversely 
egg-shaped, sharply toothed. Thorns stout, not over two inches 
long. Fruit axillary, red, in clusters. Late summer. The 
fruits are sometimes known as " haws," thus Cowper says — 
" I fed on scarlet hips and stony haws." 
Cockspur Thorn ( Cratasgus Crus-galli) . Rose family. 
A shrub or small tree with leaves thick and shiny, inversely 
egg-shaped, sharply toothed. Thorns slender, two to four inches 
long. Fruit globular, red, in clusters on short side branches. 
Late summer or autumn. 
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