RED FRUIT 
Red Baneberry {Actaea rubra). Crowfoot family. 
A branching perennial about two feet high, with leaves of 
many leaflets, the leaflets pointed, cut and toothed. Fruit 
numerous small berries in a broad raceme at the end of a long, 
slender stalk. In exceptional cases the fruit-stalks are stout 
like those of the White Baneberry. Midsummer. 
Wild Lily-of -the- Valley (Maidnthemum canadense) . Lily 
family. 
An herb with unbranched stem a few inches high. Two (some- 
times three) leaves, long, pointed, with parallel veins and some- 
what heart-shaped bases, without stalks or with very short 
ones. Fruit red berries in terminal racemes, at first only speckled 
with red. 
Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis). Dogwood family. 
A little herbaceous plant, woody only at the base, with 
simple stem several inches high, bearing four to six leaves in a 
whorl, egg-shaped or oval, pointed. Fruit (drupe) bright-red, 
berry-like, clustered at top of stem. Late summer. 
Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Indian Turnip (Ariscema iriphyllum). 
Arum family. 
An upright, unbranched perennial, one to three feet high; 
leaves usually with three pointed leaflets. Fruit bright-red ber- 
ries, closely packed in a stout spike. Midsummer. 
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