BLACK FRUIT 



1. Trailing, climbing, leaves compound. 



RUNNING SWAMP BLACKBERRY (Rubus hispidus). Rose 



family. 



Slender stem with backward bending prickles; 

 leaflets 3 (rarely 5) inversely heart-shaped, coarsely 

 toothed. Fruit sparse, nearly black when ripe, 

 containing few grains. Late summer. 



Fig. 84. 



Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quittquefolia) . 



Low BLACKBERRY (Rubus Canadensis). Rose family. 

 Trailing over rocks, etc. ; few prickles. Fruit black, 

 in raceme. 



VIRGINIA CREEPER. WOODBINE (Ampelopsis quinque- 



folia). Vine family. 



Climbing by tendrils; leaves of five leaflets. Fruit a 

 small berry, loosely clustered. Autumn. 

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