BLACK, BLUE AND PURPLE FRUIT 
Elder (Sambiicus canadensis) . Honeysuckle family. 
A common shrub a few to ten feet high. Leaves of five to 
eleven leaflets. Fruit berry-like (drupe) small, dark-purple, in 
terminal drooping clusters. Rich ground. Early autumn. 
Privet {Ligustrum vulgarc). Olive family. 
An upright branching shrub, six feet high or over. The leaves 
are opposite, oblong, blunt-pointed, without teeth. Panicled 
clusters of black berries at the ends of the branches. Autumn. 
PRIVET 
i^Zigus-f'rum vulgare) 
Nannyberry. Sweet Viburnum ( Viburnum Lentago). 
Honeysuckle family. 
A shrub with ovate, pointed leaves with close-pointed teeth; 
leaf-stalks with margins. Fruit in terminal clusters, ovoid, black 
or dark-purple (earlier crimson) . The stone is grooved on both 
sides. Early autumn. 
Round-leaved Dogwood (Cornus circinata). Dogwood 
family. 
A shrub with rounded, short-pointed leaves, woolly beneath. 
Fruit light-blue, in tcmiinal clusters. Early autumn. 
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