118 WILD FLOWERS AND FRUITS 



INDIAN CURRANT (Symphoricarpos vulgaris). Honey- 

 suckle family. 



Shrub, max. ht. 5 ft.; stems upright; flowers small, 

 bell-shaped, hairy inside, in close axillary clusters, 

 practically without stalks; leaves oval, not toothed, 

 blunt-pointed, short-stalked. Summer. New Jer- 

 sey, South and West. 



SPREADING DOGBANE (Apocynum androsaemijolium) . 



Dogbane family. 



Ht. few ft.; branching; flowers in loose spreading 

 cymes with short stalks; corolla bell-shaped with 

 (5) lobes rolled back; leaves egg-shaped, with 

 stalks, pointed. Roadsides. Common. Early 

 summer. 



Fig. 59. 



Spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium). 



SWAMP VALERIAN (Valeriana sylvaticd). Valerian 



family. 



Ht. i2 ft. or over; flowers in terminal cluster; 

 corolla somewhat bell-shaped, 5-lobed; leaves of 

 5-11 leaflets, lance-shaped, sparsely toothed. Damp 

 ground. Early summer. 



See also MOTHERWORT (Purple 4), and TURTLEHEAD 

 (White 7). 



