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blueberry, which comes Later on. The squaw huckleberry has 

 a large greenish berry which is white or pink when ripe. It 

 is bitterish but not at all poisonous. 



The heath family, to which these huckleberries belong, 

 contains the greatest number of our shrubs of any family. 

 Among them are rhododendron, azalea, arbutus, kalmia, 

 sweet pepper-bush, wintergreen, fetter-bush, andromeda, 

 stagger-bush, cranberry, and other plants less conspicuous 

 which we would hardly recognize as of any consequence. It 

 contains 54 of our North Carolina shrubs. ISText comes the 

 rose family with 45 species, including 20 hawthorns, the 

 classification of which, as I have already said, is in such a 

 badly confused state that it is impossible to say how many 

 there really are. Even if the number of species were agreed 

 on, their separation into trees and shrubs would be largely 

 arbitrary. Other well known members of this family are 

 roses, blackberries, raspberries, plums and cherries. 



The Saxifrage family has ten species including syringas, 

 hydrangeas, gooseberries, currants, etc. The holly family 

 includes twelve species in ISTorth Carolina. That is, we have 

 twelve bush forms of holly, leaving out the well known tree 

 with the prickly leaves. Several hollies that I include in the 

 shrubby forms, such as Ilex vomitoria, I. cassine, and 7. deci- 

 dua may also become small trees. 



Other important families are the sumachs, with nine 

 species ; the honeysuckle family with sixteen species ; and the 

 St. John's-Wort family with thirteen species. 



These references are only to the shrubs and do not include 

 vines, which, with the exception of a few grapes, we have not 

 treated at this time. 



Below is appended a table showing in convenient form the 

 number of woody plants in our state : 



Native trees 182 



Naturalized trees 10 



Total trees 192 



