_Apple Family_
Trees and shrubs with alternate leaves, and regular, perfect flowers;
calyx superior, 5-toothed; petals 5; stamens numerous; fruit a more or
less fleshy pome.
Leaves pinnate. =Sorbus.=
Leaves simple, entire-toothed or lobed. =Amelanchier.=
[Sidenote: =Sorbus sambucifolia= (Cham. and Schl.) Roem _Western
Mountain-ash._]
A small tree with smooth bark. Leaves pinnate, leaflets 5—15,
ovate-lanceolate or oval, obtuse or short-pointed, serrate, smooth
and dark green above, pale and usually more or less hairy beneath,
especially along the veins, seldom over 2½ inches long. Flowers white,
nearly ½ an inch across in a compound flat cyme, 2—4 inches broad;
petals spreading, short-clawed, obovate; stamens numerous; fruit bright
scarlet, more than ¼ of an inch in diameter.
In moist stony ground throughout the region; flowering in June.
[Sidenote: =Amelanchier alnifolia= Nutt. _North-western June-berry._]
A shrub, soft-hairy when young, at length nearly smooth. Leaves thick,
broadly elliptic or almost orbicular, very obtuse and often truncate
at the apex, round or subcordate at the base; coarsely dentate above
the middle. 1—2 inches long. Flowers in rather short, dense racemes,
pedicels short; petals oblanceolate, ¼—¾ of an inch long, 2—4 times the
length of the calyx; fruit purple when ripe and very sweet.
On slopes at the lower altitudes throughout the region, flowering in
June.