WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
and lower portion soon perish, and the vine then depends 
upon its numerous, minute suckers to absorb its nourish- 
ment from the host to which it is attached. It is a 
slender, high climbing, leafless, thread-like vine, vary- 
ing in colour from yellow to orange, and producing 
numerous, dense clusters of tiny, dull white flowers. 
The little corolla is broadly bell-shaped with five 
rounded, spreading lobes containing five fringed 
scales, above which are inserted the five stamens. 
The minute calyx is greenish white. This Dodder 
is found chiefly in moist, shaded soil in low thickets 
and near streams. 
BLACK, OR COMMON NIGHTSHADE 
Solanum nigrum. Potato Family. 
A low, native, annual species growing one or two 
feet high in rich, shaded grounds from July to Octo- 
ber. It is usually smooth, much-branched, and 
spreading. ‘The thin, pointed-oval leaf is wavy-toothed, 
and is either narrowed or rounded at the base. The 
small, white flowers are similar in structure to those 
of the purple-flowered species, and the fruit is round, 
juicy and black. There is some question as to the 
extent of the poisonous qualities which have been 
attributed to this plant and its fruit. It is employed in 
medicine, and in the Isles of France and Bourbon as 
well as in the Hawaiian Islands, the leaves are said 
to be extensively used as food, being boiled like spin- 
ach, In the Dakotas, according to Professor Hansen, 
this plant is known as the Stubbleberry, and the fruit 
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