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bouquets. The berries are non-poisonous but distasteful. For- 

 merly they were used in compounding home remedies which 

 were destined to "cleanse the blood" and act upon a torpid liver. 



MAPLE FAMILY. SAPINDACEAE 



The most familiar members of this family are trees and 

 were described in the bulletin, "Trees of Vermont." Two of 

 the maples, striped maple or whistle-wood and mountain maple, 



Mountain Maple. 

 Leaves and fruit, X 



Striped Maple. 

 Leaf and fruit, X %. 



never grow large and are often shrubby in habit. Leaf cuts of 

 these are therefore reproduced from the previous bulletin. There 

 is another interesting member of this family which is always 

 a shrub, i. e. the bladdernut. 



BLADDER-NUT. Staphylea trifolia L. 



This shrub differs widely from the tree maples and, indeed, 

 was formerly classed with the bittersweet in the preceding family. 

 It is a handsome, upright, branching shrub of six to fifteen feet, 

 found occasionally in moist woods and thickets. Its leaves are 

 compounded of three leaflets somewhat resembling poison ivy. 



