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and roadside thickets. The leaves are opposite, rather sharply 

 toothed and with a long tapering point, four delicate ridges con- 

 necting the leaf bases, giving a somewhat four-sided appearance. 

 The flowers which open in June and July are honey-yellow, about 



Bush Honeysuckle. 

 Fruiting branch, X V2. 



three-fourths inch long, in small clusters, most commonly of 

 three, arising from the leaf axils near the ends of the stem. These 

 are closel}' related to the handsome Japanese shrub weigela, which 

 is much cultivated for ornament. Our little native has but slight 

 claim for such purpose although it is attractive in its wild state. 



SNOWBERRY. Symphoricarpos racemosus Michx. 

 This is a low spreading shrub, usually less than one foot 

 high, found on the clififs and headlands of western Vermont. It 

 has small roundish leaves, about one inch long, and bears two or 

 three flowers in a cluster in the uppermost leaf axils from which 

 ripen waxy white berries of the size of peas. The snowberry or 

 waxberry often cultivated as an ornamental plant is a larger 

 variety of the same species, (var. laevigatiis) , not native of Ver- 



