MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 



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render the Symphoricarpus both conspicuous and attractive. 

 These berries are oval in the early stages of development, 

 when with their snowy weight they bend down the flexible 

 branches, and become rounded at maturity. They contain two 

 brown bony seeds, embedded in the granular cellular pulp. 

 The dark green leaves are broadly oval in shape and have 

 smooth margins. 



The Snow-berry is frequently cultivated in gardens as an 

 ornamental shrub. 



INVOLUCRED FLY-HONEYSUCKLE 



Lonice7-a invohie7'ata. Honeysuckle Family 



Leaves : ovate or oval, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed at 

 the base ; peduncles axillary ; bracts foliaceous, ovate ; bractlets also 

 large, at length surrounding the fruit. Flowers : in pairs, yellow ; corolla 

 pubescent, funnel-form, the limb five-lobed, the lobes short, little spread- 

 ing : stamens and style slightly exserted. Fruit : berries nearly black. 



This is one of the small-flowered Honeysuckles which grow 

 in the form of a bushy shrub. It bears yellow funnel-form 

 twin blossoms, terminating the long slender peduncles which 

 spring from the axils of the leaves. These blossoms are conspic- 

 uously involucred (hence the common name) by large broad 

 leaf-like bracts, which are green in the flowering season and 

 turn a warm reddish colour in autumn, when surrounding 

 the fruit. The five stamens protrude slightly beyond the 

 corolla, but the style is much exserted, and is tipped by a 

 large anther. 



The Fly-Honeysuckle is a straggling shrub, growing from 

 two to six feet high; the leaves are long-shaped and have 

 hairy margins, and when in fruit the reddish-black berries are 

 joined together in pairs. It is not a plant that is likely to 

 attract the traveller's interest, for it is noticeable only by rea- 

 son of its rich luxuriant foliage, since the flowers are small 

 and the berries quite dark in hue. 



