RED FRUIT 
Choke Cherry (Prunus virginiana). Rose family. 
A tall shrub with leaves egg-shaped to oblong, obtusely 
pointed, with fine teeth. Fruit little dark-red cherries in 
pendant racemes. Midsummer. 
Mountain Holly (Nemopanthus mucronata) . Holly 
family. 
A shrub with usual height of seven feet; leaves oblong, gen- 
erally without teeth, pointed or with a bristle-tip (mucro) . Fruit 
(drupe) coral-red, berry-like, generally solitary in axils of leaves, 
on long slender stalks. Early autumn. The Greek signifies 
flower with filiform pedicel (Gray). 
Shad Bush (Amelanchier oblongiJoUa). Rose family. 
A tall shrub with oblong to ovate leaves, perhaps somewhat 
heart-shaped at base, pointed, sharply toothed. Fruit berry- 
like (pome), round, red, sweet, edible. Low ground. Early 
summer. June Berry, or Shad Bush {A. canadensis) , is taller, 
with broader leaves and longer fruit-stalks. 
GROUP in 
Herbs 
Feverwort. Horse Gentian {Triosteum perfolihtum) . 
Honeysuckle family. 
A perennial herb a few feet high with stout stem, and with 
large, opposite, somewhat clasping leaves. Fruit a large orange 
berry in the axil of the leaf, with the long calyx lobes persisting ; 
nutlets three. Early autumn. Name signifies three bony nuts. 
The feverwort is rare in this region. The plant sketched was 
under cultivation at the summer home in Ipswich of my friend, 
Dr. Charles Townsend, who writes of the flora and fauna of 
Essex County, and who transplanted this specimen from Marsh 
Island. 
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