150 HOW TO KNOW WILD FRUITS 



Flowers. — The long trumpet-shaped flowers 

 grow in interrupted spikes. They are red or 

 yellowish. The humming bird is one of the 

 principal agents in securing the cross fertiliza- 

 tion of the flowers. April-October. 



Here is another of our wild climbing vines 

 that is beautiful in cultivation. Flowers and 

 fruit often occur together well into the fall. It 

 grows in copses in Massachusetts and Connecticut, 

 southward and west to Nebraska. 



SWAMP FLY HONEYSUCKLE 



Lonicera oblongifolia Honeysuckle Family 



Fruit. — The reddish or purple ovoid berries 

 grow in pairs on long slender stems. They are 

 usually distinct, but occasionally become some- 

 what united. 



Leaves. — The oval-oblong leaves do not have 

 hairy margins. They are nearly smooth on both 

 sides when the leaves are mature. 



Floivers. — The greenish yellow pair of flowers 

 is borne on a slender stem from the leaf axils. 



This is a bog or swamp shrub growing in 



