| DECIDUOUS TREES AND SHRUBS. 211 
A dicecious vine which grows abundantly about lakes and ponds is the 
Moonseed. It is a rapid grower, often covering a shrub or tree with its 
ivy-like leaves. It has loose panicles of white flowers: the fruit is black, 
covered with a bloom. 
There are many other shrubs in the state equally worthy of notice, but 
surely enough have been mentioned to show that these natives have a 
distinct beauty of their own—from the spring time when leaves of tender 
green, olive or bronze, begin to clothe their branches, and buds burst into 
bloom, to the autumn with its various colors of foilage and fruit. Even 
in the winter, how the snow gives added value to the tints of gray or 
brown, while here and there bright-hued twigs or berries make a bit of 
brilliancy which pervades everything around. 
It is a pleasure to know that there is, among landscape gardeners, an 
increasing interest in native plants, and that they are being more and 
more used in the laying out of public parks and large private grounds, 
producing fine landscape effects. 
Let one only go out with his eyes open, and without being prejudiced 
against anything which did not come from abroad, he will doubtless be 
surprised at the diversity and beauty of the native plants which adorn the 
uplands and the lowlands, the forests and the prairies of our state. 
LIST OF SHRUBS MENTIONED WITH THEIR BOTANICAL NAMES. 
V irgin’s Bower, Clematis verticilaris; Common Virgin’s Bower, Clematis 
Virginiana; Moonseed. Menispermum Canadense; Shrubby St. John’s-wort, 
Hypericum prolificum; Staghorn Sumach, Rhus typhina; Smooth Sumach, 
Ethus glabra; Dwarf Sumach, Rhus copallina; Wild Grape, Vitis cordifolia. 
or Vitis riparia; New Jersey Tea, Ceanothus Americana; Bitter-sweet, 
Celastrus scandens; Burning Bush, Euonymus atropurpureus; Bladder- 
Nut,- Staphylea trifolia; Mountain Maple, Acer spicatum; False Indigo, 
Amorpha fruticosa; Lead Plant, Amorpha canescens; Nine-bark, Physo- 
carpus opulifolivs; Shrubby Cinque-foil, Potentilla fruticosa; Wild 
Rose, Rosa humilis and Rosa blanda;  Service-berry, Amelanchiev 
Canadensis; Witch Hazel, Hamamelis Viryiniana; Dwarf Cornel, Cornus 
Canadensis; Silky Cornel, Cornus sericea; Panicled Cornel, Cornus pan- 
iculata; Red Osier Dogwood, Cornus stolonifera; Twin Flower, Linnea 
borealis; Yellow Honeysuckle, Lonicera Sullivantii; Crimson Honeysuckle, 
Lonicera glauca; Common Elder, Sambucus Canadensis; Red-berried Elder. 
Sambucus racemosa; Withe-rod, Viburnwm cassinoides; Maple-leaved 
Arrow-wood, Viburnum acerfolium; Bush Cranberry, Virburnum opulus; 
Button-bush, Cephalanthus occidentalis; Bearberry, Arctostaphylos Uva- 
ursi; Trailing Arbutus, Epigea repens; Wintergreen, Gaultheria procum- 
bens; Leather-Leaf, Cassandra calyculata; Wild Rosemary, Andromeda 
polifolia; Labrador Tea, Ledum latifolium; Prince’s Pine, Chimaphila 
umbellata; Wiuterberry, Ilex verticillata; Mountain Holly, Nemopanthes 
canadensis; Leatherwood, Dirca palustris; Buffalo-Berry, Sherpherdia 
argentea; Silver-Berry, Eleagnus argentea; Sweet Gale, Myrica Gale; Sweet 
Fern, Myrica asplenifolia; Greenbriar, Smilax rotundifoliu. 
