. Selected western flora : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta . Botany; Botany; Botany. 68 SELECTED WESTERN FLORA. ovary 5-ceUed, each cell 2-seeded, and partly divided into 2 by a false parti- tion. Shrubs or small trees with al- ternate, simple, petioled leaves, white flowers and red or purple edible fruit. 1. A. alnifSlia, Nutt. Saskatoon. A shrub 4-12 ft. high; silvery-toraeutose when young, afterwards becoming glabrate throughout; leaves thick, almost orbicular, blunt or rounded at the apex, sub-oordato at the base, coarsely dentate above the middle; racemes short; petals oblanceolate; fruit
. Selected western flora : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta . Botany; Botany; Botany. 68 SELECTED WESTERN FLORA. ovary 5-ceUed, each cell 2-seeded, and partly divided into 2 by a false parti- tion. Shrubs or small trees with al- ternate, simple, petioled leaves, white flowers and red or purple edible fruit. 1. A. alnifSlia, Nutt. Saskatoon. A shrub 4-12 ft. high; silvery-toraeutose when young, afterwards becoming glabrate throughout; leaves thick, almost orbicular, blunt or rounded at the apex, sub-oordato at the base, coarsely dentate above the middle; racemes short; petals oblanceolate; fruit purple, covered with a bloom. Rich woods, Fig. XL. LEGUMINOS^ (Pea - Amelanchier alni- FAMILY). folia. Herbs, shrubs or trees with alternate, stipulate, compound leaves and peculiarly irregular flowers; calyx 6-parted; corolla of 5 petals, the upper, or standard, larger than the others, enclosing them in the bud and later spread- ing; the two lateral petals, wings, more narrow and often more or less joined to the lower; the two lower petals united to form the keel, and enclosing the stamens and pistil; the whole form- ing what is known "as a papilionaceous corolla; stamens usually 10, and arranged in groups of 9 and 1, but more rarely distinct or all joined to- gether; ovary 1-oelled, forming a legume in fruit. * Stamens entieelt distinct. 1. Thermopsis', flowers yellow, leaves Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hales, B. J. (Benjamin Jones), 1868-1945. Toronto : Macmillan Company of Canada
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