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WILD FLOWERS AND FRUITS 



Bitter-sweet {Celastrus scandens). Staff-tree family. 

 Twining shrub; leaves egg-shapcd-oblong, with 

 teeth. Fruit rounded, berry-like, curling back finally 

 in 3 divisions when ripe so as to show the red 

 covering of the seeds. Early autumn. 



Trumpet Honeysuckle {Lonicera sempervirens) . 

 Honeysuckle family. 

 Climbing; leaves oblong, lower with stalks, upper pairs 

 confluent. Fruit red berries at end of stems. Late 

 summer and autumn. 



Fig. 79. 



Jack-in-the-pulpit {Arisaenta triphyllum) . 



7. Fruit clustered, upright herbs. 



BuNCHBERRY {Comus Canadensis). Dogwood family. 

 Ht. several in.; leaves 4-6 in whorl, egg-shaped or 

 oval, pointed. Fruit (drupe) bright-red, berry-hke, 

 clustered at top of stem. Late summer. 



Spikenard {Aralia racemosa). Ginseng family. 



Ht. several ft. ; leaflets heart-shaped, with double 

 teeth. Fruit red (or dark purple or black), berry- 

 like, small, many in a long cluster. Early autumn. 



False Solomon's Seal {Smilacina racemosa) . Lily family. 

 Av. ht. 2 ft. ; leaves long, pointed, with parallel 

 veins. Fruit a round berry finally dull-red (earlier 

 white, with red speckles) ; fruit in a terminal 

 cluster (compound raceme). Early autumn. 



