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Cranberry {Vaccinium macrocarpon). Heath family. 

 Stems long and slender; flower pendulous; corolla 

 ^-parted; leaves oval, blunt. Bogs. Early summer. 



Wild Morning Glory (Convolvulus Americanus). Con- 

 volvulus family. 

 Climbing plant with large bell-shaped flowers and 

 broadly arrow-shaped leaves. Common. Early 

 summer. 



Climbing Fumitory (Adlumia cirrhosa). Fumitory 

 family . 

 Climbing on bushes, foliage delicate, flowers pen- 

 dulous, clustered; sepals 2; corolla closed; leaves 

 three times pinnaiely compound, leaflets lobed. 

 Damp woods. Early summer-autumn. 



Bush Clover {Lespedeza procumbens). Pulse family. 

 Slender, on the ground; flower-stalks several- 

 flowered, papilionaceous, clustered; leaves with 

 three leaflets. Late summer. 



Small Cranberry {Vaccinium oxycoccus) . Heath family. 

 Creeping plant with delicate stems; 4-5 pointed 

 petals; anthers forming a projecting cone; leaves 

 small, egg-shaped, evergreen, thick. Bogs. Spring, 

 summer. 



See also Climbing False Buckwheat (White 44). 



15. Leaves otherwise than opposite or whorled, upright shrub. 



Pink Azalia. Wild Honeysuckle {Rhododendron ntt- 

 diflorum). Heath family. 

 Max. ht. 6 ft. ; flowers large in umbelled clusters; 

 corolla with tube; stamens and style long; flowers 

 appearing early ; leaves downy beneath. Swamps. 

 Early spring. 



Rhododendron Rhodora. Heath family. 



Max. ht. 2 ft. ; flowers large and handsome in 

 terminal clusters; corolla (i in. long), 5-lobed, 

 pink tipped; leaves oblong, not toothed. Bogs. 

 Spring, early summer. 



