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trace of scai-let. Thoreau was keenly appreciative of 

 color, which he often accurately described ; he says, 

 alluding to the nightshade berries : " I do not know 



Nightshade. 



any clusters more graceful and beautiful than these 

 drooping cymes of scented or translucent, cherry- 

 colored elliptical berries." The tall, climbing, woody 

 stems are covered with dull, bluish-green, sharp- 

 pointed, heart-shaped leaves with vari- 

 ations like my sketch, by which one 

 may easily identify the shrub. It 

 grows in moist ground, and came to 

 this country from Europe. It is com- 

 mon in the proximity of our cities, 

 but I have rarely found it in the 

 Pemigewasset Yalley, and then only beside some old 

 homestead. The little purple flowers grow in small 



Halbert Three- 

 lobed Leaf. 



