282 BLUE AND PURPLE 



BITTERSWEET; NIGHTSHADE: Blue Bind- 

 weed: Felonwort: Scarlet or Snakeberry: 

 Poison Flower: Woody Nightshade. 



Solatium Dulcamara. 

 Nightshade Family. June — Sept. 



A climbing or straggling, shrubby plant, 

 stems 2-8 feet long, found in moist thickets. 

 Eastern United States. Naturalized from 

 Europe. 

 Flowers — Violet or purple, with yellow conic cen- 

 ter, 5 reflexed divisions, in loose clus- 

 ters. Berries inedible, successively 

 green, yellow, orange, then red; appear 

 at the same time with flowers. 

 Leaves — Toothless, variable, some bearing 2 

 leaflets at the base. 



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