GREEN, GREENISH, OR YELLOWISH FRUIT 
Fruit larger than a common berry = Group I. 
Fruit small = Group II. 
GROUP I 
Fruit larger than a common berry. 
May Apple (Podophyllum peltatum). Barberry family. 
A perennial herb about a foot high, with stalk inserted on the 
under side of a leaf (peltate) about a foot broad. Another stem 
bears one to three similar leaves and the fruit, in the crotch. 
Fruit an inch or two long, egg-shaped, yellowish, edible. West- 
em New England, West and South. Midsummer. 
Thorn Apple {Datura Stramonium). Nightshade family. 
A rank, bad-smelling, annual weed, growing in waste ground, 
several feet high, with large leaves. Fruit somewhat egg-shaped 
with long prickles growing from fork. See illustration on 
page 177. 
Wild Balsam-apple {Echinocystis lobata). Gourd family. 
A tall annual, climbing by tendrils, with thin leaves of five 
lobes. Fruit green, two inches long, wdth delicate prickles. 
The vine spreads luxuriantly in some localities. 
Ground Cherry (Physalis virginiana). Nightshade family. 
A branched and spreading perennial, averaging about two 
feet high. The leaves are large and broad. Fruit a yellow berry 
enveloped in the calyx, borne separately on nodding stalk. 
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