G.49] CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 115 
May to June. Fruit oval, large (44 in. tong), in sessile clusters of 3 
to 5 rays, black or blue-black, sweet. A tall shrub or small tree, 6 to 
12 ft. high ; in dry soil or along streams; New York, south and west. 
Genus 48. LONICERA. 
Leaves entire, opposite; corolla 5-lobed; berry several- 
seeded. 
Lonicera Tartarica. (TarTarian HOoNneEy- 
SUCKLE.) Leaves deciduous, oval, heart-shaped ; 
flowers in pairs, showy, pink to rose-red; in spring; 
berries formed of the two ovaries, bright red; ripe 
in summer. A shrub, often planted and oecasion- 
ally trimmed to a tree-like form, and growing to 
the height of nearly 20 ft. 
OrDER XXIV. COMPOSIT.&. 
This, the largest order of flowering plants, is made up 
almost exclusively of herbaceous plants, but contains one 
shrub or low tree which is hardy from Boston southward 
near the Atlantic coast. 
Genus 49. BACCHARIS. 
Leaves simple, deciduous; heads of flowers small, many- 
flowered; receptacle naked; pappus of hairs. 
Baccharis halimifolia, L. (GrRounp- 
SEL-TREE.) Leaves obovate, wedge- 
shaped, crenately notched at end, light 
grayish in color, with whitish powder; 
branches angled; flowers white with a 
tint of purple, blooming in the autumn. 
A broad, loose-headed, light-colored 
bush rather than a tree, 8 to 15 ft. high; 
wild on sea-beaches, Massachusetts and 
south, and occasionally cultivated. The 
plant is dicecious; the fertile specimens 
are rendered quite conspicuous in autumn 
by their very long, white pappus. 
