RED FRUIT 
Staghorn Sumach (Rhus typhina). Cashew family. 
A tall slirub or small tree with compound leaves whose leaflets 
(eleven to thirty-one) are lance-shaped, pointed, and toothed. 
Fruit small, globular, heset with crimson hairs, in upright pyra- 
mid, closely clustered, at the top of the plant. Late summer. 
This innocuous Sumach is distinguished from the Poison Sumach 
or Poison Dogwood {Rhus vernix) by its terminal red fruit and 
more numerous and narrower leaflets. The poisonous variety 
has open clusters of white or dun-colored berries in the axils. 
Smooth Sumach {Rhus glabra) is similar to Rhus typhina, but 
smoother, and Wiih. fruit less hairy. 
The Staghorn Sumach is not to be confounded with the inap- 
propriately named Dwarf Sumach {R. copallina). This is really 
a tree except as found under cultivation. It has fewer, and 
untoothed, leaflets. Moreover, its leafstalks are distinctly 
winged. 
Purple Flowering Raspberry {Rubus odoratus). Rose 
family. 
A straggling shrub with maximum height of five feet, and 
broad leaves having three to five lobes, toothed, the middle 
lobe long. Fruit resembles the common raspberry but is flatter, 
and generally less full. Late summer, in open woods, quite 
common in some localities. 
Spice Bush {Benzoin astivdle). Laurel family. 
A tall shrub with leaves oblong to inversely egg-shaped. 
Fruit (drupe) red, shining, berry-like, pear-shaped, in clusters 
along the branches, on short stalks. Early autumn. 
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