VINES AND Slll'i 



distantly toothed. Flowers, i to .;, terminating the stem or 

 axillary among the upper leaves. April and M 



Along streams in the Southern Sta1 



The sweet syringa of our Northern gardens, with Uu 



flowers, in terminal spikes, is P. corona/: 



Wild Hydrangea 



Hydrangea arborescens Family, Saxifrage. Color, white-. 



Lcaws, ovate, acute, petioled, smooth, toothed. Flowers, like 



the common garden hydrangea, in compound cym< tlong 



the margin containing showy, petal-lib 



sometimes pistils. The central flowers are complete with 



and pistils, minute calyx-lobes, and small, greenish petal 



sionally all the flowers in the center are staminate. 



This showy shrub is found in rocky woods from Pennsyl- 

 vania to Florida. 



Ninebark 



Physocdrpus opulifolius Family, Rose. ( olor, white, pink, 



or purplish. Sepals and petals, 5. Stamens, many. Fit 

 small, in abundant, roundish, umbel-like clusters, each on a 

 slender pedicel, the umbel pcduncled. Pods follow the flow 

 3 together, of a purplish color, longer and more conspieuous than 

 the flowers. Leaves, alternate, roundish in outline, heart-shape 

 or square at base, generally 3-lobed, finely serrate. June. 



An ornamental shrub, often cultivated, 3 to 10 feet high, 

 with recurved branches. The old bark becomes loose, and 

 every year separates, hanging in thin strips, whence the com- 

 mon name. Along banks of streams, New England t. > VI »rida. 



Meadow-sweet. Quaker Lady 

 Spiraea salicifblia.— Family, Rose. Color, white, with a tinge 

 of light pink. Calyx, 5-cleft. Petals, 5. Stamens, many. I 

 5, opening along one seam. Leaves, alternate, on short petioles, 

 oval or inversely ovate, pinnately veined, serrate, on shorl 

 petioles, 1 to 2 inches long. June to August . 



A slender, tawny-stemmed shrub, 2 to 4 feel high, growing 

 along fence-rows and roadsides in wet soil. The dry fruil 

 last year is sometimes found on the bush among the flov 

 of this year. From New England southward, among the 

 mountains, to Georgia and westward. (See illustrate >n, 



Chokeberry 

 Pyrus arbuti folia.- -Family, Rose. ( 'olor, white, or tinted with 

 rose purple. Calyx, tubular, with 5 divisions, softly v 



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