
150 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
reaching a height of two feet. It blooms throughout the sea- 
son and has its home in rich woods, or on mountain-tops. In 
the early season its fragrance is hardly perceptible, but it be- | 
comes stronger as the summer advances. The leaves are 
heart-shaped, toothed, and they have stipules. The stems are 
leafy. It can readily be recognised in the coloured-plate illus- 
tration. } 
V. rotundifolia, or round-leaved violet, also has its home in 
cool, northern woods, It isa pale-yellow variety with a very 
short spur and lateral petals that are veined with brown. The 
roundish, crenate leaves lie flat on the ground and grow very 
large and shiny during the summer. The plant is not leafy 
stemmed. | 
HAWTHORN. SCARLET-FRUITED THORN. 
Cratégus coccinea. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Apple. White, pink, or reddish. Unpleasant. Newfoundland to Spring. 
Manitoba, S. to Florida 
and Texas. 
Flowers: large; clustered ina corymb. Calyx: five-cleft. Corolla: of five 
rosaceous petals. Stamens: numerous. f2sti/: one. Fruit: bright scarlet; 
not eatable. Leaves: on petioles ; roundish ovate: often lobed ; serrate. A low 
tree or shrub, the branches beset with sharp thorns. 
The hawthorn division of the apple family abounds in a num- 
ber of small trees that unfold an abundance of bloom in the 
early spring. The blossoms blend with all the pale green and 
pink tones that first cover the dull grey of the winter. 
The dwarf thorn, C. uzifléra, which is found in sandy 
places, is one of the few that can be properly called shrubs. 
DALIBARDA. (Plate LXXVZ) 
Dalibdrda repens. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Rose. Pure white. Faintly sweet. North. June, July. 
Flowers: one or two borne upon slender scapes. Calyx: of five or six un- 
equal divisions, the three larger ones closing over the fruit. Corvo//a: about an 
inch broad; of five, delicate, spreading petals. Svamens: numerous. /ystils: 
five tu ten. Leaves: from the base; spreading in a tuft ; on long petioles ; cor- 
date; toothed and mottled with a lighter shade of green. oofstock : creeping. 

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