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NATURALIST IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION 



former (Fig. 115) the individual flower stalks radiate from a 

 common point; in the latter (Fig. 116) they come off singly from 

 a common, main stalk. The fruits are, of course, similarly 

 clustered. The hop tree, really a shrub, is known by its leaf 

 made of three leaflets and its clustered fruits, achenes with wide, 

 dry, thin borders, looking somewhat like dried hops. The blue- 

 berries and huckleberries (Fig. 117) are low shrubs with rather 

 thick, leathery leaves, pink bell-shaped flowers and bluish berries 

 for fruits. In the autumn their leaves turn shades of dull red and 



give a brilliant cast to great 

 stretches of the dunes where 

 they are abundant, like the 

 autumn colors of the Scotch 

 heathers. These plants belong 

 to the heath family. Bush 

 honey suckle (Fig. 118) is a low, 

 opposite-leaved shrub with 

 yellow flowers in clusters of 

 three. The corolla is funnel- 

 form, the flowers conspicuous. 

 As they age they turn darker 

 or even scarlet to crimson. 



Spiderwort (Fig. 119) is 

 known by its grasslike leaves 

 that exude a mucilaginous sap when broken. Bastard toadflax 

 (Fig. 120) is a low plant with a cluster of small white flowers. 

 Anemone cylindrica (Fig. 121) and columbine (Fig. 122) are 

 familiar and may be recognized from the illustrations. Rock 

 cress (Fig. 124) is one of the mustard family with small white 

 clustered flowers, each with four petals. The lupine (Fig. 123) 

 has palmately compound leaves and large spikes of blue, pealike 

 flowers. 



The hoary pea (Fig. 125) or wild sweet pea is an erect, 

 unbranched plant, a foot or two high, with typical, clustered, 

 pea-shaped blossoms that are yellowish purple. The leaves are 



FIG. 123. Lupine, Lupinus perennis 



