2 88 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FARM 



(Celastrus scandens) is perhaps the tallest of these, and has 

 the best development of woody stems. It grows on dry 

 wooded hills. The moonseed (Menispermum canadense) 

 is a half -woody twiner that overruns the bushes in moist 

 lowland thickets. It is one of the best of vines for shady 



FIG. 122. Bittersweet, with fruit unopened. 



places, and it has beautiful foliage. The large scalloped 

 leaves overlap one another from the top to the ground like the 

 slates on a roof. There are herbaceous twiners on the taller 

 bushes also, like the bindweeds and the hops. And the 

 balsam-apple (Eckinocystis lobata) climbs by neat tendrils of 

 singular efficiency. And virgin's-bower (Clematis virginiana) 

 and other species of Clematis, climb by twisting the stalks 

 of leaf and leaflet about stems for support. 



