150 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 



reaching a height of two feet. It blooms throughout the sea- 

 son and has its home in rich woods, or on mountain-tops. In 

 the early season its fragrance is hardly perceptible, but it be- 

 comes stronger as the summer advances. The leaves are 

 heart-shaped, toothed, and they have stipules. The stems are 

 leafy. It can readily be recognised in the coloured-plate illus- 

 tration. 



V. rotundifblia, or round-leaved violet, also has its home in 

 cool, northern woods. It is a pale-yellow variety with a very 

 short spur and lateral petals that are veined with brown. The 

 roundish, crenate leaves lie flat on the ground and grow very 

 large and shiny during the summer. The plant is not leafy 

 stemmed. 



HAWTHORN. SCARLET-FRUITED THORN. 



Cratcegns coccinea. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Apple. White, pink, or reddish. Unpleasant. Newfoundland to Spring. 



Manitoba, S. to Florida 

 and Texas. 



Flowers: large; clustered in a corymb. Calyx: five-cleft. Corolla: of five 

 rosaceous petals. Stamens: numerous. Pistil: one. Frutt: bright scarlet; 

 not eatable. Leaves : on petioles ; roundish ovate : often lobed ; serrate. A low 

 tree or shrub, the branches beset with sharp thorns. 



The hawthorn division of the apple family abounds in a num- 

 ber of small trees that unfold an abundance of bloom in the 

 early spring. The blossoms blend with all the pale green and 

 pink tones that first cover the dull grey of the winter. 



The dwarf thorn, C. unifldra, which is found in sandy 

 places, is one of the few that can be properly called shrubs. 



DALIBARDA. (Plate LXXVI.) 

 Dalibdrda repens. 



FAMILY COLOUR ' ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Rose. Pure white. Faintly sweet. North. June, July. 



Flowers: one or two borne upon slender scapes. Calyx: of five or six un- 

 equal divisions, the three larger ones closing over the fruit. Corolla: about an 

 inch broad; of five, delicate, spreading petals. Stamens- numerous. Pistils: 

 five to ten. Leaves : from the base ; spreading in a tuft ; on long petioles ; cor- 

 date ; toothed and mottled with a lighter shade of green. Rootstock : creeping. 



