VINES AND SHRUBS 



Passion Flower 

 Passiflbra incarnata — Family, Passion Flower. Color, white and 

 purplish. A woody vine climbing by tendrils opposite the leaves. 

 Leaves, alternate, deeply 3-lobed, roundish in outline, smooth, 

 3 to 5 inches broad, with pointed lobes, finely serrate, on petioles 

 I to 2 inches long. Flowers, single, axillary, consisting of a bell- 

 shape, tubular calyx with 4 or 5 narrow lobes at top; a double 

 or triple fringe of large purplish hairs or bristles called a crown, 

 in the throat. 4 or 5 petals lie under the fringe, joined to the 

 calyx-tube. Ovary is raised on a little stalk around which the 

 filaments make a hollow tube, with anthers distinct. Fruit, size 

 of a small lemon, 2 inches long, yellowish, edible, a many-seeded 

 berry, called may-pop. May to July. 



Dry soil, Virginia to Florida, westward to Texas. 



The passion flower vine is better known North in cultiva- 

 tion. The flower was named by Roman Catholic mission- 

 aries in South America, who fancied they found in it symbols 

 of the passion of our Saviour — -" the crown of thorns in the 

 fringes of the flower, nails in the styles with their capitate 

 stigmas, hammers to drive them in the stamens, cords in the 

 tendrils." 



Bunchberry. Dwarf Cornel 



Cornus canadensis. — Family, Dogwood. Color, greenish white, 

 sometimes purple-tipped. Leaves, nearly sessile, 4 or 6 in a whorl, 

 lying close under the flower, ovate, pointed, with curved, parallel 

 veins. Below on the stem are a few smaller, scale-like leaves. 

 The flowers are clustered in the center, small, greenish, with black 

 dots among them. Calyx, minutely 4-toothed. Corolla, of 4 

 oblong, spreading petals. Stamens, 4, with white anthers. Pis- 

 til, 1. Directly under the head of flowers are 4 large, pointed, 

 white, petal-like leaves, an involucre, which appear to be the 

 flower itself. Later the flower-stalk lengthens and bears a bunch 

 of bright red berries, very striking and pretty. June. 



This small imitation of the larger flowering dogwood 

 blossom (C. florida) is only 5 to 7 inches high. It is not un- 

 common in deep woods in New Jersey and New York, west- 

 ward to Minnesota. Whether in blossom or in fruit, it is a 

 pretty plant to find and study. 



Round-leaved Cornel or Dogwood 



C, circinata. — Color, white. Leaves, opposite, round or oval, 

 distinctly pointed, veins curving and parallel, downy beneath, 

 petioled, 2 to 6 inches long. Calyx, minutely 4-toothed. Petals, 



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