VINES AND SHRUBS 



ovate, coarsely and sharply toothed, with prominent, straight 

 veins, somewhat heart-shape at base, pointed at apex, on 



der petioles. Hairy tufts till the axils. May and June. 



A tall shrub, 5 to 15 feet high, with grayish hark, common 

 in wet soil from Maine to Georgia, wist ward to western 

 New York. Fruit a small drupe, blue or bla- 



Black Haw. Stag-bush. Sloe 

 V. pruni folium. — A shrub or small tree, with ]l<rurrs ii. 



pound, sessile cymes, 2 to 4 inches broad. Leaves, small, oval, 



petioled, finely serrate, lower surface smooth. Fruit, a black, 



oval drupe, sweet, and edible. 



Found in moist or dry soil from Massachusetts t<> Florida, 



westward to Michigan. 



Elder. Elderberry 



Sambucus canadensis Family, Honeysuckle. Color, white. 



Calyx, tubular, with very small teeth. Corolla, urn-shape, with 

 5 spreading lobes at the top. Stamens, 5, joined to the 1>:< 

 the corolla. Stigmas, 3. Flowers, in large, flat cymes on a long 

 peduncle. Fruit, a deep purple drupe. Leaves, compound, with 

 5 to 7 leaflets, pointed, serrate, some 3-divided. Stem, scarcely 

 woody, and young branches filled with pith. June and July. 



A showy plant, with soft, misty flowers, followed by swi 

 ish black berries. The berries have medicinal properties, and 

 are made into elderberry wine. When bruised the Leaves 

 have an unpleasant odor. Found in wet soil, beside streams, 

 along roadsides, from New England to Florida and wi 

 ward. 



Red-berried Elder 



5. racemosa. — Taller than the last, witli warty hark. Flo\ 

 in panicled clusters, small, turning brown when dried. /-- 

 pinnate, 5 to 7 leaflets, ovate t<- lance - shape, finely Ben 

 petioled, opposite, pointed, the midrib sometimes one side of the 

 middle at base. Fruit, bright red. Stem, tilled with brown pith. 

 May. 



Rocky woods and open places, from New England to 

 Florida and westward. Fruit ripe in June. 



One-seeded Bur Cucumber 

 Stcyos angulatus Family, Gourd. Color, whitish. 



of two kinds, the pistillate in roundish, peduncled heads; stami- 

 nate, in corymbs or clusters from the same leaf-axils on very long 



