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Our species of Galium are slender, inconspicuous, branch- 

 ing plants with four-angled stems, leaves in whorls of four 

 to seven, and minute flowers in small clusters from the leaf- 

 axils. 



HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY (Capnfolmceae) 



Shrubs, trees, or woody vines. Leaves opposite. Fruit pulpy. 



Southern Elder (Samhucus mtermedia) 



The common northern elder, 8. canadensis, waits until 

 summer is fully established before opening its flowers, 

 but our southern elder blooms profusely the year around, 

 and travelers through the state are seldom long without 

 a glimpse of its large, flat-topped clusters of small white 

 flowers. The dark purple or blackish fruit is sometimes 

 very abundant. This shrub or small tree grows in damp 

 soil, where it often forms dense thickets. The leaves are 

 of several sharply toothed leaflets, one to five inches long. 



Viburnum. Arrow-Wood. Black Havs^ (Genus 



Yihurnum) 



Few cultivated shrubs are more beautiful than our 

 native F. olovatum, which in late winter or early spring 

 is whitened from the lowest to the highest branches with 

 innumerable clusters, one to two inches across, of small, 

 five-lobed flowers. The glossy evergreen leaves, one-half 

 to two inches long, are broadened upward. The small, one- 

 seeded drupes are black. It is found near streams, and 

 also in dry soil, in the South. 



V. nudum, with larger and fewer clusters, two to six 

 inches broad, oval or oblong leaves two to seven inches 

 long, and dark blue drupes, is also very ornamental. It 

 is found in woods and swamps from Florida northward to 

 Long Island. 



