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FLOWERING SHRUBS 



BUSH FLY-HONEYSUCKLE 



Loiiicera Uiahcnsis. Honeysuckle Family 



Leaves : oblong, subcordate at the base, obtuse, glabrous ; peduncles 

 axillary ; bracts short. Flowers : corolla campanulate, obtusely saccate at 

 the base, bilabiate, the lobes short; style included. Fruit: red berries, 

 nearly distinct, globular. 



This Fly-Honeysuckle grows from three to five feet high, 

 and is branching and very bushy. The leaves are oblong and 

 bright green and have wavy smooth margins. The pale yel- 

 low flowers, whose corollas are cleft into two lips, grow in 

 pairs on long slender peduncles from the axils of the leaves, 

 and are subtended by small bracts, in which latter respect 

 they differ materially from the Involucred Fly-Honeysuckle, 

 which has very large broad bracts. The fruit consists of egg- 

 shaped berries, which are more or less joined together and are 

 of a lovely translucent scarlet colour, — 



" Like a double cherry, seeming parted." 



BLUEBERRY 



Vacciniitiit o^'ali folium. Huckleberry Family 



Leaves : alternate, oval, short-petioled, glabrous on both sides, rounded 

 at both ends or somewhat narrowed at the base, thin, entire. Flowers: 

 white and pink, commonly solitary in the axils on rather short recurved 

 pedicels ; caly.x-limb slightly toothed ; corolla globose-ovoid, toothed ; 

 stamens ten. Fruit: a many-seeded blue berry with a bloom, acid. 



There are in the mountain regions many si)ecies of Vac- 

 ciniiini that bear edible berries, but the Blueberry and the 

 Black Vaccinium (a description of which is given below) are 

 the most conspicuous in fruit, the former having blue berries 

 covered with a rich soft bloom and possessing an acid though 

 not unpalatable flavour, and the latter having purplish-black 

 berries that are quite sweet and pleasant to tlie taste. 



The Blueberry is a branching shrul), growing from three to 

 ten feet high, and has smooth twigs that arc sharply angled 



