288 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FARM 
(Celastrus scandens) is perhaps the tallest of these, and has 
the best development of woody stems. It grows on dry 
wooded hills. The moonseed (Menispermum canadense) 
is a half-woody twiner that overruns the bushes in moist 
lowland thickets. It is one of the best of vines for shady 
Fic. 122. Bittersweet, with fruit unopened. 
places, and it has beautiful foliage. The large scalloped 
leaves overlap one another from the top to the ground like the 
slatesonaroof. There are herbaceous twiners on the taller 
bushes also, like the bindweeds and the hops. And the 
balsam-apple (Echinocystis lobata) climbs by neat tendrils of 
singular efficiency. And virgin’s-bower (Clematis virginiana) 
and other species of Clematis, climb by twisting the stalks 
of leaf and leaflet, about stems for support. 
