J70 THE PLANT WORLD. 



The Greenbriars of the swamps differ from their cousins of the 

 dunes, Smilax Imirifolia and the red-fruited S. Walteri being the 

 species most characteristic of wet places. The former is a notable 

 plant, with its thick, shining, laurel-like leaves and great heavy masses 

 of stems weighing down the shrubs and trees upon which they sup- 

 port themselves. 



It may be interesting, in conclusion, to group these various 

 climbers in respect to their methods of ascending supporting objects. 

 Decumaria and the Poison Ivy [Rhus radicans) climb by means of 

 innumerable aerial roots sent out along their stems, and holding them 

 close to the trunk ascended. Tendrils are the aid to climbing pos- 

 sessed by the Greenbriars (in which they are appendages of the leaf 

 stalks), grapes (in which they are specialized branches from the leaf 

 axils), Virginia Creeper (tendrils as in the grapes, but with the ends 

 flattened out into holdfast disks), and Cross-vine (here the tendrils 

 are branched and represent the terminal leaflet of the compound 

 leaves). Yellow Jessamine and Supple Jack are twiners, ascending 

 supports by means of the twisting of the whole stem. Often several 

 stems twist closely about each other and form a great "braid." 



United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



AMONG COLORADO'S WILD FLOWERS. 



By diaries L Hincke. 



"Relics ye are of Eden's bowers, 



As pure, as fragrant and as fair 

 As when ye crown'd the sunshine hours 



Of happy wanderers there." 



—Keble. 



IT IS indeed with pleasure unalloyed that one spends his first years 

 wandering among the hills and mountains, the valleys and the 

 plains of Colorado; diversified as is the country, there is always 

 something new, something beautiful to be seen and heard in these 

 haunts of Nature; a new flower here, a sweet bird there, a busy band 

 of emigrating ants yonder marching in single file to some new abode, 

 a colony of saucy little prairie dogs basking in the warm sunshine, 

 barking and scampering in every direction at the moment of your ap- 

 proach. But wonderfully beautiful and most full of interest are the 

 wild flowers that are scattered in such rich profusion everywhere, in 

 size, in fragrance and in variety. 



From the very early springtime, through the glorious, long sum- 

 mer and until the ending of the late, late fall, they come, following 



