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often slightly tinged with red. They are two lipped 

 and the upper lip (the broad one) is four-notched. Its 

 leaf is broadly oval, of a dull green, very pubescent 

 when young, but gets smooth later on. It is about from 

 one to three inches long. This bush bears dark red 

 berries. The flowers are white at first but soon 

 change to yellow. Just beyond this honeysuckle you 

 come to a cluster of three sycamore maples, fine trees 

 all of them, with large, splendidly developed leaves. 

 You remember this sycamore maple has leaves very 

 much like the American buttonwood. From this re- 

 semblance it gets its botanical name pscudo (false) 

 and platan us (plane tree or buttonwood). The flowers 

 of the sycamore maple are very curious looking things. 

 They come soon after the leaves appear, in long, pen- 

 dulous cone-shaped racemes of dull green. They are 

 quite conspicuous and you cannot fail to see them if 

 you are near the tree at its flowering time. These 

 racemes soon develop into close clusters of fruit called 

 "keys" or "samaras." The leaf of the sycamore 

 maple is thick and coarse of texture, cordate, with 

 five lobes crenately toothed and always on noticeably 

 reddish stems or petioles. The fruit hangs on the 

 tree long after the leaves fall in the autumn. After 

 the sycamore maples you meet a bush of rambling 

 sprawling branches and locust-like leaves. It is the 

 bristly locust (Robinia hispida) and beyond it is a 

 well grown clump of lilac which decks itself gorgeously 

 in May with white flowers. Next to the lilac is 

 Amorpha frncticosa, of the great Leguminosce or pulse 

 family and in late May or early June sends out deep 



