HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



large, covered with blue bloom, io-celled, flattened. The younger, 

 reddish berries and maturer blue or black grow together in such 

 numbers that the plant often appears to have more fruit than 

 leaves. Stamens, 8 to 10. Leaves, pale green, broadly elliptical, 

 tli in, shining above, acute and finely toothed. 



A bush 2 to 3 feet high, one of our commonest and best 

 species, furnishing sweet, delicious fruit in July and August. 

 In swamps and sandy soil of pine barrens from New Jersey 

 to Florida. 



Low Pale Blueberry 



V. <vacillans. — Calyx, reddish, and corolla yellow tinged with 

 red. A smooth species with greenish yellow branchlets. Berries, 

 blue, with a bloom, ripening late. 



Dry fields and woods from New England to Michigan and 

 southward. 



Spreading Dogbane 



Apocynum androsaemi folium. — Family, Dogbane. Color, pale 

 or deep pink. Leaves, opposite, oval, pointed, often with red 

 petioles and veins. Calyx, 5-parted. Corolla, 5-lobed, bell- 

 shape, with triangular bodies below the throat, opposite the 

 lobes. Stamens, 5, with short filaments situated on the base of 

 the corolla. Stigma, sessile, 2-lobed. Fruit, a long and slender 

 pod. Seeds, furnished with a tuft of long, silky hairs. Bark, 

 composed of tough fibers. Flowers, few and small, like tiny bells 

 in terminal cymes, fragrant. 



A loosely branched, shrub-like perennial herb, 1 to 4 feet 

 high, in fields growing in light, moist or dry soil, from New 

 England to Georgia and westward. (See illustration, p. 447.) 



Cypress Vine 



Ipomoea Quamoclit. — Family, Convolvulus. Color, red. Leaves, 

 1 (innately dissected into thread-like, parallel lobes. Corolla, long, 

 tubular, with a 5-parted, spreading border, one or two together, 

 on long peduncles. June to October. 



A twining vine, formerly more cultivated than now, the 

 delicate stems twining around cords which were fastened to a 

 ring at the top. Occasionally found wild in the South. 



Common Morning Glory 



I. purpurea, in its varying shades of white, blue, or crimson, is 

 times reduced to a wild state, having escaped cultivation. 

 Twining and leafy. 



446 



