. The commonly occuring wild plants of Canada [microform] : a flora for the use of beginners. Botany; Plants; Botanique; Plantes. 74 COMMON CANADIAN WILD beneath. Flowers in compound cymes. Fruit berry-like, nearly globular, dark red or purple.—Swamps. Var. melanocar'pa, Hook., is nearly smooth throughout, and has large black fruit.—Swamps. 8. P. America'na, DC. (American Mountain-Ash.) A small tree with odd-pinnate leaves of 13-15 leaflets^ the latter lanceolate^ taper-pointed, sharply serrate, bright green. Fruit scarlet, berry-like, not larger than peas. Flowers in flat cymes.—Swam
. The commonly occuring wild plants of Canada [microform] : a flora for the use of beginners. Botany; Plants; Botanique; Plantes. 74 COMMON CANADIAN WILD beneath. Flowers in compound cymes. Fruit berry-like, nearly globular, dark red or purple.—Swamps. Var. melanocar'pa, Hook., is nearly smooth throughout, and has large black fruit.—Swamps. 8. P. America'na, DC. (American Mountain-Ash.) A small tree with odd-pinnate leaves of 13-15 leaflets^ the latter lanceolate^ taper-pointed, sharply serrate, bright green. Fruit scarlet, berry-like, not larger than peas. Flowers in flat cymes.—Swamps and cool woods, northward. 4. P. sambucifo'lia, Cham, and Schlecht., differs from the last in having oblong, oval or lance-ovate, obtuse leaf- lets, smaller cymes, and larger flowers and berries.— 11. AMELAN'CIIIER, Medic. June-BKBRY. Saskatoon-bebry. 1. A. Canadensis, Torr. and Gray. (Shadbush, Service- berry.) A tree 10-30 feet high, with a purplish, berrj'-like edible fruit. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, slightly cordate, pointed, very sharply serrate, nearly or soon glabrous. Bracts and stipules silk^'-ciliate. Flowers large, in drooping nearly glabrous racemes. Petals oblong. Pedicels of the berries long.—Open woodland;*. , Var. rotundifolia, Torr. and Gray, has broader leaves. Var. Oblongrifolia, Torr. and Gray, is a small tree (6-10 feet), with the 3'oung leaves and racemes densely white- tomentose. Leaves brooder and generally rounded at the base. FlowL-i's in shorter and denser racemes, and pedicels of the fruit shorter. Petals oblong-spathulate.—Low grounds. 2. A, Oligoearp'a, E(jem. A shrub 2-4 feet high. Leaves thin, oblong, acute at both ends. Petals oblong-obovate. Fruit dark purjtle with a dense bloom.—Cold swamps. 3. A. alnifolia, Nutt. A shrub 3-8 feet high. Leaves mostlj' broadly elliptical and obtuse, coarsely toothed to- wards the apex. Baceme short and rather dense. Petals wedge-shuped-oblong.—N. W, Please note that these i
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