VINES AND SHRUBS 



petioles. Flowers, in umbels on flattened peduncles. Fruit, a 

 bluish black berry. May to July. 



Damp thickets, Connecticut to Virginia, westward to 

 Kansas and Texas. 



Carrion-flower 



S. herbkcea. has rounded or ovate leaves, obtuse or slightly heart- 

 shape at base, very acute at apex, 7 to 9-nerved, 2 to 5 inches 

 long. The stem has no prickles. Flowers, in umbels, many to- 

 gether, and they may be positively known by the carrion-like 

 odor which they emit. June. 



Moist meadows, woods, and thickets in all the Eastern 

 States. 



Bristly Green Brier 



5. bona-nox is a very prickly species, the leaves being spiny 

 on their margins and underneath on the veins. Leaves, often 

 narrowed in the middle, distended at base, pointed at apex, 

 smooth and shiny. Flowers, numerous, in small umbels. Berries, 

 bluish black, 1 -seeded. Upright branches springing from root- 

 stocks, which bear large tubers. 



Thickets, Massachusetts to Florida and westward to 

 Illinois, Missouri, and Texas. 



(Most of our shrubs whose flowers appear in catkins will 

 come under the category of green flowers.) 



Prairie Willow 



Sklix humilis. — Family, Willow. Color, greenish, with a red- 

 dish tinge. Flowers, in catkins, appearing much earlier than the 

 leaves. The pistillate, about 1 inch long, without perianth, but 

 attended by 1 bract ; staminate, consisting of 2 stamens with long 

 filaments. Capsule, much longer than its pedicel. Leaves, long, 

 lance - shape, acute at both ends, 2 to 4 inches long, the mar- 

 gins slightly rolled back, dark green and softly downy above, 

 often grayish-woolly beneath. Petioles, short. Stipules, small, 

 ovate or lance - shape. 2 to 8 feet high. Dry soil from North 

 Carolina and Tennessee northward. April and May. 



This species frequently bears leafy cones on the ends of its 

 branches, produced, probably, by insects. 



Shining Willow. Glossy Willow 



S. lucida. — Flowers, in catkins, leafy-bracted. The staminate 

 are feathery, with 5 stamens in each flower; pistillate, denser, 

 harder, longer, 2 to 3 inches long, often remaining far into the 



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