Description of Native Vines 
23. Creeping Snowberry. (Chiogenes serpyllifolia.) 
LeaF: 14’, simple, alternate, entire, ovate or oval, apex sharp, 
edge rolled under, rusty-hairy beneath (as also branches), ever- 
green, with flavor of birch. FLOWER: white, small (corolla bell- 
shaped, 4-lobed, 8 stamens, 2 small bracts under calyx), single ; 
May ; fruit a white berry 14’ diameter, edible. In damp woods; 
woody, trailing. (Pl. III.) 
24. Pyxie. Flowering Moss. (Pyxidanthera barbulata.) 
LEAF’ Xf’ or less, simple, alternate or opposite, entire, narrow, 
apex sharp, evergreen. FLOWER: white or rosy, bell-shaped, 
single (corolla 5-lobed, 5 stamens, anthers slender-pointed at 
base), 4’ across, stemless; numerous; April, May; short trail- 
ing evergreen. New Jersey, ard south. (PI. III.) 
25. Breweria. (B. pickeringii.) 
LEAF: 1'-1¥%4’, simple, alternate, entire, very narrow (or lowest 
broader at apex, base tapering). FLOWER: white, 4%’-%4’ across 
(corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed, 5 stamens, sepals very hairy, sta- 
mens and style longer than corolla), 1-3-clustered on long stem 
with leaf-like bracts; summer. New Jersey, west and south; 
trailing, herbaceous. 
26. Wild Potato-vine. (Ipomcea pandurata.) 
LEAF: 2'-3', simple, alternate, entire (or sides contracted more 
or less into fiddle-shape), heart-shaped, apex sharp. FLOWER: 
white, purple inside (corolla funnel-form, sepals smooth), 3’ long, 
1—5-clustered ; June-August. Connecticut, west and south ; trail- 
ing and twining. (PI. III.) 
27. Common Morning-glory. (Ipomcea purpurea.) 
LEAF: 2'-4', simple, alternate. entire, base cordate, apex 
sharp. FLOWER: purple, rosy or white, 2’ long (corolla funnel- 
form, zo bracts at base of calyx), 2-5-clustered ; July-September ; 
stalk rough-hairy ; twining ; herbaceous ; introduced, but spontane- 
ous around houses. (PI. III.) 
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