VINES AND SHRUBS 



— a small, [-seeded, rounded pod, pallid with fine 



brown hairs, and which not one person in a thou 



who know this common plant lias i 



seeds that plant th • soil for n I arc the 



fruits of queer Little underground blossoms, t> irin 



resemblance to those at the 'other end' than i 



pods." — W. H. Gibson. 



Broom Crowberry 

 Corema Conrkdii. — -Family, Crowberry, Color, purple and 

 brown, from the stamens. /.• a ■ . Long, needle-like, den 

 clustered, especially at the ends of the branches. /■ tami- 



nate and pistillate, in terminal heads, surrounded bj 

 bract lets, without calyx and corolla. Stamens, usually 3, with 

 Long, purple, tufted filaments and brownish anthers, sho 

 Style, 3 -divided, with, sometimes, toothed stigm mall 



dry drupe, inclosing 3 or 4 nutlets. April and M 



A small, curious shrub, from 6 inches to 2 Peel high, found 

 in a few places near the coast, Long Island. New Jersey, and 

 Massachusetts to Newfoundland, where it mak< Tho- 



reau, "pretty green mounds, 4 or 5 feet in diameter by 1 foot 

 high — soft, springy beds for the wayfarer." 



Burning Bush. Wahoo 



Evonymus atropurpureus.— Family, Staff Tree. Color, dark 

 purple. Calyx, of 4 or 5 divisions, produced under a short, flat 

 disk. From the edge of the disk arise 4 or 5 petals, roundish, 

 spreading, and as many short stamens. At length the di 

 and adheres to the deeply lobed, crimson pod. Flowers, in V 

 clusters in the axils, long-peduncled. Leaves, oblong or ovate, sharp- 

 ly pointed at apex, acute at base, narrowly tcothed,on petioles. June. 



Cultivated for its brilliant pods in autumn, but 

 wild from New York to Wisconsin and southward to Florida. 



Strawberry Bush 

 E. americknus. — Color, greenish purple, 

 sessile, thick, glossy green, 2 to 3 inches long, slightly haiv. 

 the veins underneath. Parts of the Sower in five I 

 surrounded by red pulp (an aril), are attached to a crimson, rough- 

 warty pod. 



A shrub, 2 to 5 feet in height, irregular, very striking when 

 in fruit. I have found it in Mew Jersey along bank 

 streams and drier roadsides. New York southward and 



Westward to Illinois. 



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