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Besides the ordinary flowers there are lower ones on thread- 

 like stems near the base, or underground, without corolla. These 

 produce a one-sided, swollen, very fruitful pod. Hogs are fond 

 of them and uproot them, from which the common name has 

 arisen. 



" If we carefully uproot the soil the peanut is soon disclosed — 

 a small, i-seeded, rounded pod, pallid, beset with fine brown hairs, 

 and which not one person in a thousand of those who know this 

 common plant has ever seen. These are the seeds that plant the 

 soil for next year's vines, and are the fruits of queer little under- 

 ground blossoms, bearing no more resemblance to those at the 

 'other end' than is seen in the pods." — W. H. Gibson. 



22. Low Blackberry. Dewberry 



Rubus Canadensis ("red"). — Family, Rose. Color, white. 

 Leaves of 3, 5, or 7 small leaflets radiating from a common 

 centre, sharply toothed, not prickly. Time, May. 



Sepals a.nd petals, 5. A smaller and more seedy berry than 

 the high blackberry. 



It is a shrubby, trailing plant, growing in the dust by roadsides 

 or in dry fields, preferring rocky or sterile soil. Prickles few and 

 weak, the stem sometimes quite smooth. From Newfoundland 

 to Virginia, and westward. 



23. Running Swamp-blackberry 



R. hispidus. — Color, white. Leaves of 3 leaflets, coarsely 

 toothed, rather thick and smooth, somewhat shiny and ever- 

 green. Time, May. 



Sepals and petals, 5. 



A small-flowered species with weak, prickly, trailing stems,, 

 sending up flower-bearing, leafy shoots. It is a delicate, pretty 

 vine, not valuable for its fruit, which is small, consisting of few 

 red or black drupes. The leaves turn a fine shade of red in 

 autumn and mingle with other vines and shrubs with pretty 

 effect. Nova Scotia to Georgia in swampy, grassy grounds, or 

 moist woods. 



