1 14 Field, Forest, and Wayside Flowers 



to whatever it can reach. Always on the Irish 

 Gorse, and sometimes on growing tips of our 

 native barberry bushes, leaves are metamorphosed 



FIG. 23. A climbing spray of the pea. (The topmost leaflets 



are converted into tendrils.) 



(From the Vegetable World.) 



into thorns. In the case of the cactus, and some 

 other succulent dwellers in thirsty lands, they are 

 transformed into pickles. 



