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Bush Honeysuckle 



Dicrvilla clicrvi/la (Linnaeus) AlacAIillan 



Plate 2 1 3b 



A low shrub with opposite leaves and branches, i to 4 feet high, smooth 

 or nearly so. Leaves ovate or oval, long pointed at the apex, usually 

 rounded at the base, 2 to 5 inches long, irregularly crenulate and often 

 slightly ciliate on the margins; petioles very short. Flowers in clusters of 

 one to six on slender stalks which are terminal or in the axils of the upper 

 leaves. Each flower about three-fourths of an inch long, nan^owly funnel- 

 form, the tube with a slight sac at the base, the limb nearly regular, five- 

 lobed, yellowish and more or less ptibescent within and without, usually 

 three of the lobes somewhat united. Calyx with five very slender lobes. 

 Stamens five. Fruit a linear-oblong, smooth capsule, with a slender beak, 

 tipped with the persistent calyx lobes. 



In dry, sandy or rocky woods, fields and roadsides, Newfoundland to 

 Manitoba, south to North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin. 



Teasel Family 



D i p s a c a c e a e 

 Common or Card Teasel 



Dipsdciis sy/i'cstn's Hudson 



Plate 213a 



A bristly, prickly, coarse biennial, tall and stout, 3 to 6 feet high. 

 The stem, branches, peduncles, midribs of the leaves and the involucre all 

 bear many short prickles. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or oblong, often i foot 

 long. Flowers lilac-colored in dense, cylindrical heads which are 3 to 5 

 inches long, made up of long, spiny bracts in the axils of which are borne 

 the flowers, which usually are exceeded in length by the spiny bracts. The 

 lower flowers open first and appear as a violet or bluish ring of bloom 

 around the spiny head, the ring of flowers gradually spreading upward. 



In waste places, old fields and roadsides, Maine to Ontario and 



