HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



A large, irregular shrub, 8 to 12 feet high, with smooth, 

 grayish bark in which long, white cracks occur. Bark of the 

 older branches greenish brown with lighter stripes. Edges 

 of damp woods, thickets, and moist soil from New England 

 southward to South Carolina and Missouri. 



New Jersey Tea. Red-root 



Ceanbthus americanus Family, Buckthorn. Color, white. 



Leaves, alternate, 3-ribbed, on short petioles, about 2 inches long, 

 toothed, the teeth tipped with a brown, glandular point; oblong 

 or egg - shape, smooth, except along the veins, which are cov- 

 ered with rusty brown. Sepals, 5, white, incurved, rounded. 

 Petals, 5 little hoods, mounted on slender claws. In the center 

 of the flower is a fleshy disk, to which the sepals are attached. 

 Stamens, 5. Pistil, 1, with 3-lobed stigma. Fruit, a 3-seeded, 

 3 -celled berry, opening from the center and splitting into 3 car- 

 pels. Flowers, with white pedicels in small clusters, with long, 

 common peduncles crowded along the upper branches from the 

 axils of the leaves. They are small, and the effect of the umbel 

 is light and feathery, a pure white. July. 



Shrub low, 1 to 3 feet high, with pale green stems, which 

 are striped with brown. Growing in dry, woodland places, 

 along borders of roads, often well up a hillside. The leaves 

 were used for tea during the American Revolution. The 

 root-bark, a bright red color, has astringent qualities, and 

 has been used in medicine. It furnishes a brown dye. 



C. o<vktus. — Leaves differ from the last species in being very 

 narrow and broadly ovate or obtuse at the apex. Peduncles, short. 

 Flowers, in clusters at the tips of leafless branches. 



A rare species in the East, but commoner westward to 

 Minnesota and Illinois, in dry or sandy soil. 



Loblolly Bay. Tan Bay 



Gordbnia Lasianthus — Family, Tea or Camellia. Color, white. 

 Leaves, leathery, lance-shape to oblong, finely toothed, smooth, 

 shiny, feather- veined, without stipules. Sepals and petals, 5, 

 the latter 1^ inches long. Stamens, in clusters at the base of each 

 petal. Style, 1. Pod, 5-valved. Flowers, showy, borne on long 

 peduncles in the axils. 



A shrub or small tree found in swamps from Virginia 

 southward, near the coast. 



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