36 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



shaped, coarse, light-green leaves of the hobblebush 

 ( Vihurnum lantanoides). The flat, white flower 

 cluster appears in May, and the small, hard, red 

 berries are ripe in September. This reclining shrub 

 frequently takes root at the ends of its bi-anches, and 

 thus trips up the unwary traveler. It is extremely 

 common in the White Mountains, along the paths 

 which wind through the woods in the vicinity of the 

 Flume House, Franconia Notch, and the Crawford 

 House, White Mountain Notch, and it can often be 

 found at an altitude of three thousand feet on the 

 mountams. 



Probably we will see in May or June, on the 

 woodland road farther south, the insignificant green- 

 ish yellow flowers of the fly honeysuckle {Lonicera 

 ciliatti). These grow in twos at the junction of the 

 leaves with the main stem of the straggling plant. 

 The leaves are oval or variable in shape, and finely 

 fringed at the edge. A near relative of the fly 

 honeysuckle, a shrub quite common on the wooded 

 roadsides of the North, is the bush honeysuckle {Dier- 

 villa trifidd). This has small, honey -yellow, or 

 greenish yellow flowers, usually three on a stalk, 

 which also grow out from the main stem directly at 

 its junction with the leafstem. They bloom from 

 June to August. The opposite-growing, sharp- 

 pointed leaves are toothed. 



