192 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



have a four-lobed white corolla. At all times, but espe- 

 cially when dried, this plant has a sweet odour resembling 

 that of vanilla. Its seeds are two-lobed and are covered 

 with tiny hooked hairs, which have earned for it the de- 

 scriptive name of " Cleaver," for verily its burs cleave fast 

 to anything with which they come in contact. 



Galium trifidum, or Small Bedstraw, has slender weak 

 four-angled stems, very freely intertangled, and forms dense 

 mats on the ground. The narrow spatulate primary leaves 

 are usually in fours and the pale flowers are solitary on 

 long stalks and grow in pairs at the nodes. It is a wet- 

 loving plant. 



SNOWBERRY 



Symphoricarpus racemosus var. pauciHorus. Honeysuckle Family 



Leaves: opposite, broadly oval, entire, softly pubescent. Flowers: 

 solitary in the upper axils, and two or three in the terminal spike; 

 corolla campantilate, five-lobed, bearded within; stamens and style in- 

 cluded. Fruit: a white berry. 



When in flower this low spreading shrub bears its small 

 white or pinkish bells in tiny clusters at the ends of the 

 numerous upright branches, and also singly in the upper 

 axils of the leaves. When in fruit the pretty, white, waxen 

 berries render the Symphoricarpus both conspicuous and at- 

 tractive. These berries are oval in the early stages of de- 

 velopment, when with their snowy weight they bend down 

 the flexible branches, and become rounded at maturity. 

 They contain two brown bony seeds, embedded in the granu- 

 lar cellular pulp. The dark green leaves are broadly oval 

 in shape and have smooth margins. 



The Snowberry is frequently cultivated in gardens as an 

 ornamental shrub. 



