. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 438 The Serviceberries prominent on the under side; the slender grooved leaf-stalks are to cm. long. The flowers, opening when the leaves are about one fourth expanded, in March or April to May, are in spreading or drooping racemes 7 to 10 cm. long, on slender pedicels to 3 cm. long; the bracts are purplish, silky, but fall away before the flowers open. The calyx is bell-shaped, nearly smooth, with lanceolate
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 438 The Serviceberries prominent on the under side; the slender grooved leaf-stalks are to cm. long. The flowers, opening when the leaves are about one fourth expanded, in March or April to May, are in spreading or drooping racemes 7 to 10 cm. long, on slender pedicels to 3 cm. long; the bracts are purplish, silky, but fall away before the flowers open. The calyx is bell-shaped, nearly smooth, with lanceolate sharp-pointed lobes, one fourth to one half the length of the petals, which are linear-spatulate or linear-oblong, to cm. long; the ovary is smooth at the top, or nearly so. The fruit, ripening in June or July, is red-purple, with a bloom when fully ripe, about 6 mm. in diameter, and sweet; seeds about 3 mm. long. The wood is hard, strong, close-grained, dark reddish brown, and satiny; its specific gravity is about It is sometimes used for tool-handles and portions or machinery, as is the wood of many of the trees of the Apple family. 2. SWAMP SERVICEBERRY — Amelanchier intermedia Spach Amelanchier Botryapium Hooker, not de Candolle. Amelanchier ohovalis Ashe Amelanchier canadensis ohovalis Michaux Also called Shad bush and Swamp sugar pear, this is a small tree or shrub, inhabiting moist soil, occurring from New Brunswick to Manitoba, southward to Florida and Louisiana, reaching a maxi- mum height of 9 meters, and a trunk diam- eter of about 6 dm. The trunk is straight when grovmig singly; often, however, several trunks as- cend together from a common base. The bark is about 6 mm. thick, grayish brown, scaly or quite smooth, with few fissures or none. The twigs are slender and hairy, becoming smooth or nearly so, dark red- dish brown. The leaves are oval, oblong, eUiptic or obovate, 4 to 6 cm. long, or those of young shoots laiger, pointed at apex, narrowed, ro
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