476 THE MADDER FAMILY. 



side but near the centre of which the ground is broken up into a marsh. 

 We are dismayed at the thought of crossing it, and perhaps would turn 

 backward were it not for the flowers which urge us into its very midst. 

 From the further side we see flaunting widely the petals of the rose-mallow; 

 nearer at hand is the grinning face of the monkey-flower, and just beyond 

 the button-bush. More sweet than that of the others is its luscious fra- 

 grance, and quaint enough the little florets look closely packed in balls. 

 Their long styles and capitate stigmas remind us of pins stuck in a cushion. 

 We are not repaid for picking these heads of bloom, as very shortly they 

 fade ; better indeed it were to leave them in the marsh. 



PARTRIDGE VINE. CHECKER=BERRY. SQUAW=VINE. 



MitchcUa 7'cpeiis. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Madder. White or flesh colojir. Fragrant. General. AJ>rii-July. 



Fl(nvers : terminal, or axillary, two grcnving together and united by their ovaries. 

 Calyx-tube: usually four-lobed. Corolla: funnel-form, four-lobed, they being re- 

 curved and bearded within. Stamens: four; on the throat of the corolla. Pistil: 

 cue. Fruit : a round, scarlet berry formed by the cohering ovaries of the flow- 

 ers and crowned by their persistent calyx teeth. Leaves : small ; opposite, 

 petioled, orbicular, or ovate, blunt at the apex and rounded, or cordate at the 

 base; dark green ; lustrous; evergreen, 6'/^wj' ; trailing, rooting at the nodes. 



Beneath the trees of the forest where day and night a silence reigns 

 and all is far from human habitation, this little vine, unconcerned and at 

 home, spreads great patches of its small, lustrous leaves. And full of 

 sentiment appear the sister blossoms united curiously at their bases and 

 combining to form the bright, pulpy fruit so much sought as an invigourat- 

 ing meal by ground-animals and birds. Like many of the madders, these 

 complex little flowers are dimorphous, a fact clearly shown to us by the long 

 exserted style and short filaments in some among them, and by just the 

 reverse sizes of these parts in others. Well into the winter the berries last 

 which with the evergreen, symmetrical little leaves are cheerful things to 

 look upon as the woods gradually become bare. 



GEORGIA BARK. CALICO BUSH. {Plate CLVIII.) 



Pinckneya piibcns. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Madder. Pitik and purplish. Scentless. Florida to Soiith Carolina. May ^ June. 



Flowers : growing in lateral and terminal compound cymes. Calyx : pubescent ; 

 oblong-obovate with five pointed, deeply cleft lobes, one of which in the outer 

 flowers frequently becomes a large, coloured leaf. Corolla : pubescent ; tubular 

 with five linear, recurved lobes. Stamens: five, exserted. Pistil: one ; style, 

 exserted. Capsule : globose, dark-coloured, spotted with white dots and even- 

 tually splitting in sections to the base. Leaves : simple ; opposite, with pubescent 



