HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



halberd - shape at base, the lobes spreading, acute, sometimes a 

 little toothed. June to September. 



A smooth-stemmed vine, 3 to 10 feet long, trailing or 

 twining, or matting on the ground if it cannot climb; but 

 it prefers to rise into the light by the aid of small bushes and 

 herbs. It spreads very fast by means of running rootstocks, 

 in moist soil along the coast or banks of rivers, helping to 

 thicken the growth of thickets which are made wherever 

 small streams feed the roots with perpetual moisture. New 

 England to North Carolina and westward. 



Var. pubescens is low and trailing, 1 to 3 feet long, often lying 

 on the ground, with branches and leaves softly downy. Flowers, 

 white, rarely pink. Leaves, 1 to 2 inches long, long-petioled, 

 triangular in shape, not much indented at the stalk, but slightly 

 heart-shape, the lobes acute. May to August. 



Common. Virginia to Florida and westward. 

 Buttonbusb. Riverbush 



Cephalanthus occidentalis Family, Madder. Color, white. 



Leaves, opposite or in threes, with short stipules between, oval 

 or broadly lance - shape, 3 to 5 inches long, on channeled peti- 

 oles, entire, but wavy-margined, pointed, bright green above, 

 paler below. Calyx-tube, 4-lobed. Corolla, a slender tube, hairy 

 within, 4-parted, at first white, then brown, its lobes tipped with 

 black. Stamens, fastened to the tube of the corolla. Pistil, long, 

 extending far out of the flower, with a button-like stigma. Flow- 

 ers, gathered into a close head, 1 inch in diameter, around a fleshy 

 receptacle, the head long-peduncled, springing from the leaf-axils. 

 July and August. 



This bush has unusually strong roots and grows beside 

 ponds and streams, often quite in water, its lowest stems 

 being immersed. Height, 5 to 10 feet. Bark rough, gray, 

 spotted on the older stems. A handsome shrub, common; 

 much prized and cultivated in Europe. 



Tartarian Honeysuckle 



Lonicera tariarica, — Family, Honeysuckle. Color, white or 

 light pink. Calyx, tubular, with 5 short teeth. Corolla, funnel- 

 form, with the border deeply 5-lobed, three of the lobes rather 

 larger than the other two. Bracts underneath the flowers long 

 and narrow. Flowers, in pairs from the axils of one of two op- 

 posite leaves. Fruit, deep orange or red berries, united at base. 



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