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in pubescent flattish peduncled cymes. These blos- 

 soms have the large outer ring of sterile flowers, so 

 characteristic of the hydrangeas. The fertile flower's 

 calyx is top-shaped, has five teeth and five valvate 

 petals. Valvate means edge to edge. The stamens are 

 ten, and they are inserted upon the base of the disc. 

 Prof. Bailey says it can be easily distinguished from 

 Hydrangea petiolaris, which has four sepals (petals of 

 the calyx) on the marginal flowers, whereas this hy- 

 drangea has but one sepal. The leaves of the climber 

 we are here discussing are very coarsely toothed, bright 

 glossy green on the uppersides, but paler beneath. They 

 are from two to four inches long. The fruit is a little 

 capsule. 



Symphoricarpos racemosus. {S nowb err y or Wax- 

 berry. No. 72.) In the northeasterly corner of the 

 Ramble, near the Road Stop there, you will find hand- 

 some masses of this daintily-flowered shrub. It has 

 been well named indeed, for the pure white berries 

 which gleam through its tender dark-green foliage are, 

 of a truth, snow-white. The masses of the shrub, here, 

 are on the left of the Walk, directly opposite the 

 northerly end of the East Ramble Road Stop. You 

 can easily know them by their small (two or three 

 inches) oval leaves, generally entire, of a beautiful 

 clear dark-green on the uppersides, but of a lighter 

 green on the undersides. They are set oppositely 

 along the branches, on very short leaf-stems, and, off- 

 hand, have something of the look of a locust's leaf. 

 This shrub blooms all through the summer and, from 

 June to September, you may come upon its dainty 



