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Title: An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stevens, George T. (George Thomas), 1832-1921
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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ronia 1. SORBUS, L. Trees or sliruhs, with compound leaves with about 10 to 16 leafletsarranged on the sides of tlie leaf-stalk, and with an odd terminal leaflet.Flowers in a compact, terminal, nearly flat cluster. Fruit small, berry-like, red. 1. S. americana, Marsh. (Fig. 1, pi. 71.) American IMountainAsh. (Pyrus americana, (Marsh.) DC.). Small trees, reaching a lieightof 50 ft. Leaflets 11 to 17, narrow, lance-sha)x;d with tapering points,without hairs, above or below, except when young. )5erriiS as large aspeas, red when ripe. Swamps and mountain woods, mostly m northernhalf of our area. 2. S. sambucifolia, (A. Gray.) Roem. Western Mountain Ash.(Pyrus siilchnisis, (Roem.) Piker.) Leaflets 7 to 15, oblong or oval, tolance-shaped; less tapering at points than those of No. 1, and usuallyclothed with soft hairs beneath. Fruit larger than that of No. 1. North-ern New England and northward. 2. PYRUS, L. Trees, sometimes shrubs, with simple leaves. Flowers while or pink, APPLE FAMILY 329
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Plate 711. Sorbus americana. 2. Aronia arbutifolia. 3. A. nigra. 4. Malus coro-naria. 5. Pyrus communis. 6. Amelanchier spicata. 7. A. oligocarpa. 8.A. rotundifolia. 9. A. canadensis. 330 POMACEAE showy, in a flat or flattish cluster, the flower stalks of the outer rowsbeiiij, longer than those at the center; tlie center flowers blooming first.Calyx of 5 acute lobes, urn-shaped. Petals 5, stamens numerous, stylesusuallj 5. Fruit containing many grit-cells; not deijressed where at-tached to stem. P. communis, L. (Fig. 5, pi. 71.) Peak. Tree well known in culti-vation and found also wild, escaped from cultivation, 3. MALUS, Juss. Trees and shrubs, with simple leaves; with uml)ol-like clusters offlowers; fruit fleshy without grit-cells, depressed at stem attacliment. Leaves often heart-shaped at base M. sylvestris Leaves not heart-shaped, generally nearly triangular M. coronaria Leaves narrowly oblong M. angtistifolia 1. M. sylvestris, (L.) Mill. Apple. (,1/. Mains, (L.). Britton.)Leaves

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