VINES AND SHRUBS 



"In some parts the two species of poverty grass {Hudsonia 

 tomentosa and cricoides), which deserve a better name, reign 

 for miles in little, hemispherical tufts or islets, like moss 

 scattered over the waste. 



" In summer, if the poverty grass grows at the head of a 

 hollow looking toward the sea, in a bleak position where the 

 wind rushes up, the northern or exposed half of the tuft is 

 sometimes all black and dead, like an oven-broom, while the 

 opposite half is yellow with blossoms, the whole hillside thus 

 presenting a remarkable contrast when seen from the poverty- 

 stricken and the flourishing side." — Thoreau's Cape Cod. 



Low, branched, tufted shrubs, looking like heather. In 

 dry, sandy soil, in pine barrens, not far from the seashore. 



A third species is found in the mountains of North Carolina. 



Yellow Passion Flower 



Passiftbra lutea. — Family, Passion Flower. Color, greenish 

 yellow. Leaves, 3-lobed, the lobes entire; alternate, with petioles 

 and stipules. Sepals, 5, united at base, colored, with a fringed 

 crown at the throat. Petals, 5, joined to the calyx. Stamens, 5, 

 their filaments united, making a tube below, which surrounds the 

 long stalk of the ovary; separated above with large anthers. 

 Fruit, a berry \ inch in diameter. Flowers, 1 inch across, on 

 jointed peduncles in the leaf-axils. 



Moist thickets, Pennsylvania southward. 



Leatherwood. Moosewood. Wicopy 

 Dirca palustris. — Family, Mezereum. Color, light yellow. 

 Leaves, alternate, oval or inversely ovate, nearly smooth. No 

 corolla, but a colored, tubular, funnel - shape, 4-toothed calyx. 

 4 long and 4 short stamens, inserted on the calyx, stand out from 

 the flower. Fruit, a reddish berry. The numerous flowers 

 emerge before the leaves, from a thick, scaly bud, which remains 

 as an involucre, and later gives rise to a leafy branch. April. 



This shrub has exceedingly tough bark, which was once 

 used for thongs by the Indians. The wood is soft, white, and 

 brittle. Found in moist, rich woods in all the Atlantic 

 States and westward. 



Swamp Privet 



Adelia acuminata, — Family, Olive. Color, greenish yellow. 

 Leaves, lance - shape to ovate, opposite or sometimes fascicled, 

 on slender petioles 1 to 4 inches long. Flowers, small, appearing 

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