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the hardier species of northern Florida often grow by 

 streams. They are of shrubby growth, with small leaves, 

 and minute greenish flowers which lack petals and are 

 much less noticeable than the black or blue fruit, about 

 one-third of an inch in length, which is often very abun- 

 dant. A. segregata has narrow evergreen leaves, one to two 

 inches long, that are slightly broadened upward. A, 

 globularis has leathery oblong leaves, usually less than an 

 inch in length. 



LOGANIA FAMILY (Loganmceae) 



Woody vine. Leaves opposite, evergreen. Flowers yellow, 

 funnel-shaped, fragrant. Fruit a capsule. 

 Also: A small weed. 



Yellow Jessamiine. Carolina Jessamine (Genus 



GelsemiiLm) 



If that kindly herbalist John Parkinson had known this 

 vine he might have written of it, as he did long ago of 

 the honeysuckle, "although it be very sweet, yet do I not 

 bring it into my Garden, but let it rest in his own place 

 to serve their senses that travel by it, or have no Garden." 



Nowhere is the yellow jessamine more beautiful than 

 in thickets and woods, where it runs in tangled profusion 

 over trees and bushes, ornamenting them with its shining 

 leaves, and here and there along its slender stems setting 

 forth midwinter flowers. Fragrant as memories of south- 

 ern nights, as the romance of southern days, well does 

 it "serve their senses that travel by it." 



The roots and bark are poisonous, and are used medici- 

 nally. Strychnine is obtained from the Asiatic Strychnos 

 Nux-vomica, of the same genus to which the edible Kaffir 

 orange belongs, and notorious arrow-poisons are prepared 

 from others. 



