VINES AND SHRUBS 



\ inch long, with 5 short teeth at the summit. Sometimes tinted 

 with pale pink. Rather larger than flowers of the preceding. 



May to July. 



A low shrub, 1 to 4 feet high, with uprighl leaves and 



branches. It is thought to poison lambs and calves which 

 browse upon its tender leaves. In sandy soil and low gn >unds 

 near the coast, Rhode Island to Florida, westward to Tei 

 see and Arkansas. 



Male Berry. Privet Andromeda 



L. ligustrma. — A taller shrub than the last, 3 to 12 feet high. 

 Flowers^ small, roundish, numerous, crowded in terminal com- 

 pound racemes. Leaves, entire, or with very minute teeth, in- 

 versely ovate, acute at each end. June and July. 



Swamps and wet thickets, from New England t< 1 Florida and 

 westward. 



Leather Leaf. Dwarf Cassandra 



Chamaedaphne calyculata. — Family, Heath. Color, white. 

 Leaves, evergreen, leathery, resinous - dotted, and when \ 

 covered with scurfy scales, small, \ to i\ inches long, oblong, 

 some of them lance-shape, with a few minute teeth, the upper 

 ones, especially those among the flowers, reduced to ■ 

 Calyx, of 5 stiff, rigid sepals. Corolla, tubular, cylindrical, 5- 

 toothed. Stamens, 10, anthers opening by a hole at the 

 Capsule, 5-celled. The sprays of waxen-white, close, bell-shape 

 flowers droop upon slender pedicels springing from the axils of 

 the small, upper leaves. April and May. 



New England bogs and New Jersey barrens, southward to 

 Georgia, westward to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. 

 A shrub, 3 to 12 feet high, much branched, erect, with 

 slender branches. 



Cassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, was a beautiful 

 prophetess. One of the legends connected with her is that 

 she and her brother, while asleep in the sanctuary of Apollo, 

 had their hearing changed so that they could understand the 

 voices of birds. Because Cassandra refused to obey the god 

 Apollo, he ordained that her prophecies should meet with no 

 belief. Therefore, when she predicted the ruin <»t" Troy, the 

 indignant Trojans shut her up in a mad-house. (See illus- 

 tration, p. 414.) 



Bearberry 



Ardostaphytos Uva-iirsi (name from the Greek, meaning ' bear 

 and a bunch of grapes. Why grouped in a name is unexplained). 



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