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4-parted, at first white, then brown, its lobes tipped with black. 

 Stamens, fastened to the tube of the corolla. Pistil, long, ex- 

 tending far out of the flower, with a button-like stigma. Flow- 

 ers gathered into a close head, i inch in diameter, around a 

 fleshy receptacle, the head long-peduncled, springing from the 

 leaf-axils. 



This bush has unusually strong roots and grows beside ponds 

 and streams, often quite in water, its lowest stems being immersed. 

 Height, 5 to 10 feet. Bark rough, gray, spotted on the older 

 stems. A handsome shrub, common ; much prized and cultivated 

 in Europe. 



87. Groundsel-tree 



Bdccharis halimifblia. — Family, Composite. Color, white, 

 with a purplish tint. Leaves, wedge-shape, tapering to the 

 base into short petioles, pointed above and coarsely, round- 

 ishly toothed. Time, late summer and autumn. 



Flowers, all tubular, collected in loose heads, the pistillate 

 and staminate on different plants, the heads growing in leafy 

 panicles. Corolla, in the fertile blossom, long, narrow, thread- 

 like ; in the staminate broader, 5-lobed. 



After the plant has gone to seed, the pappus of the fertile flow- 

 ers becomes long and full, conspicuous, giving the whole shrub a 

 hoary, plumy look in late autumn. It is a light-colored bush, 6 

 to 15 feet high, the only shrub among the composites, growing 

 along sea-beaches from Massachusetts to Virginia and southward. 



88. Black Huckleberry. "Whortleberry 



Gaylussdcia resinbsa.— Family, Heath. Color, white, with 

 sometimes a reddish tint. Leaves, entire, alternate, ovate, 

 with short petioles or none, profusely dotted underneath with 

 resinous, yellowish spots. Time, May. 



Calyx, resinous-dotted, 5-pointed, the points crowning the 

 ripened berry. Corolla, bell-shaped, contracted above, 5-parted. 

 Stamens, 10, the anthers opening by a pore at the apex. Fruit, 



