VINES AND SHRUBS 



\ inch long, with 5 short teeth at the summit. Sometimes tinted 

 with pale pink. Rather larger than flowers of the preceding. 

 May to July. 



A low shrub, 1 to 4 feet high, with upright leaves and 

 branches. It is thought to poison lambs and calves which 

 browse upon its tender leaves. In sandy soil and low grounds 

 near the coast, Rhode Island to Florida, westward to Tennes- 

 see and Arkansas. 



Male Berry. Privet Andromeda 



L. Ugustrina. — A taller shrub than the last, 3 to 12 feet high. 

 Flowers, small, roundish, numerous, crowded in terminal com- 

 pound racemes. Leaves, entire, or with very minute teeth, in- 

 versely ovate, acute at each end. June and July. 



Swamps and wet thickets, from New England to Florida and 

 westward. 



Leather Leaf. Dwarf Cassandra 



Chama.eda.phne calycutata. — Family, Heath. Color, white. 

 Leaves, evergreen, leathery, resinous - dotted, and when young 

 covered with scurfy scales, small, J to i| inches long, oblong, 

 some of them lance-shape, with a few minute teeth, the upper 

 ones, especially those among the flowers, reduced to bracts. 

 Calyx, of 5 stiff, rigid sepals. Corolla, tubular, cylindrical, 5- 

 toothed. Stamens, 10, anthers opening by a hole at the top. 

 Capsule, 5-celled. The sprays of waxen-white, close, bell-shape 

 flowers droop upon slender pedicels springing from the axils of 

 the small, upper leaves. April and May. 



New England bogs and New Jersey barrens, southward to 

 Georgia, westward to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. 

 A shrub, 3 to 12 feet high, much branched, erect, with stiff, 

 slender branches. 



Cassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, was a beautiful 

 prophetess. One of the legends connected with her is that 

 she and her brother, while asleep in the sanctuary of Apollo, 

 had their hearing changed so that they could understand the 

 voices of birds. Because Cassandra refused to obey the god 

 Apollo, he ordained that her prophecies should meet with no 

 belief. Therefore, when she predicted the ruin of Troy, the 

 indignant Trojans shut her up in a mad-house. (See illus- 

 tration, p. 414.) 



Bearberry 



Ardostaphylos U'va-ursi (name from the Greek, meaning a bear 

 and a bunch of grapes. Why grouped in a name is unexplained). 



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