RED OR REDDISH PURPLE 129 



MATRIMONY VINE 



Lycium vulgare Potato Family 



Fruit. — The oval orange-red berries are soli- 

 tary or few in the leaf axils. They are small, 

 with the calyx persistent at the base. 



Leaves. — The small leaves are oblong or lan- 

 ceolate and taper into a short stem. The mar- 

 gins are entire. 



Flowers. — The pm^plish or greenish flowers 

 are solitary or two to five in the leaf axils. 



In cultivation, this woody shrub is trained 

 over trellises. When growing wild, it trails in 

 masses over any handy support. Its branches 

 are long and drooping. The vine is usually 

 smooth. It often occurs as an escape from 

 cultivation. 



PARTRIDGE BERRY 



Mitchella repens Madder Family 



Fruit. — The scarlet berrylike fruit is really a 

 double drupe, bearing at the summit the teeth of 

 the two flower calices. Each ovary is four-celled 

 with one ovule to a cell, and some fruits have four 



