VINES AND SHRUBS 



Leaves, thin, ovate, slightly heart-shape at base, acute or obtuse 

 at apex. May and June. 



A species escaped from cultivation, now become wild in 

 sheltered, often rocky places, from Maine to New Jersey 

 and westward to Kentucky. Other species will be found in 

 the Yellow Group. 



Snowberry 



Sym.phorica.rpos ra.cem.bsus. — Family, Honeysuckle. Color, whit- 

 ish. Calyx, swollen at base, with 5 short teeth. Corolla, bell- 

 shape, the limb with 5 spreading lobes bearded inside. Stamens, 

 4 or 5, joined to the corolla. Fruit, a snow-white, waxy berry. 

 Flowers, one or two, or a few clustered in the axils. Leaves, 

 elliptical or broad in the middle, opposite, short-petioled. June 

 to August. 



Rocky shores and dry river-banks. A shrub, low and 

 branched, under 4 feet in height. Often cultivated, but 

 native in the northern States. 



Hobble-bush. Witch Hobble. Moosewood 



Viburnum alnifolium. — Family, Honeysuckle. Color, white. 

 Calyx, 5-toothed. Corolla, 5-lobed. Stamens, 5. Stigmas, 3. 

 Flowers, like those of the garden hydrangea, arranged in flat 

 cymes, those around the border neutral, without stamens and 

 pistils, with large, flat corollas. Fruit, a crimson drupe, becom- 

 ing darker when ripe. The winter leaf-buds are without cover- 

 ing. Leaves, opposite, nearly orbicular, serrate, pinnately veined, 

 slightly heart-shape at base, pointed at apex, with short petioles, 

 unevenly divided by the midrib, rusty-scurfy along the veins 

 underneath. 



A shrub, reaching the height of 10 feet, with purplish bark. 

 Found in cold, wet woods, from New England to North 

 Carolina, where it ascends into the mountains. The lower, 

 drooping branches often take root, making loops to trip up 

 the careless pedestrian. 



Cranberry Tree. High Bush Cranberry. Pimbina 



V, Opulus, var. americanum. — Color, white. Flowers, in cymes 

 like the last, those along the margin with broad, flat corolla- 

 lobes, neutral, the cymes 3 to 4 inches across. Fruit, round or 

 oval, bright red drupes, edible, sour, like cranberries, whence the 

 name. Height, 10 feet or less. Leaves, 3-lobed, strongly palmate- 

 ly veined, truncate at base, the lobes coarsely toothed near their 



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