VINES AND SHRUBS 



Cross- vine 



Bignbnia ca.preola.ta. — Family, Bignonia. Color, orange outside, 

 lemon within. Calyx, like a small cup with scarcely any teeth. 

 Corolla, bell - shape, somewhat 2 - lipped, not deeply 5 - lobed. 

 Stamens, 4, often with a rudiment of a fifth. Flowers, pedicelled, 

 in cymes, numerous. Leaves, petioled, a pair of oblong or 

 ovate leaflets, each stalked. A branched tendril springs from 

 the tip of the petiole, and in the axils there are often stipule-like 

 leaves. April to June. 



Woody climbers, on trees reaching a height of 50 or 60 feet, 

 in moist woods from Virginia to Florida and westward. If 

 the stem be cut across, a cross-like figure is seen in the wood. 



Bush Honeysuckle 



Diervllla Lonicera. — Family, Honeysuckle. Color, pale yellow 

 at first, becoming deeper. Leaves, opposite, short-petioled, oval 

 or elliptical, finely toothed, tapering at apex, round at base, 

 slightly fringed along the margins. Calyx-tube, long, with 5 long, 

 narrow segments above. Corolla, tubular, opening and spread- 

 ing above into 5 narrow lobes. Stamens, 5. Pistil, with a long, 

 projecting style and button - like stigma. Flowers, small, fra- 

 grant, 3 together, short-pedicelled, on a common peduncle, from 

 the upper, opposite leaf -axils. Fruit, long, crowned with the 

 calyx - teeth. Stems, grayish, somewhat 4-angled. June to Au- 

 gust. 



A pretty, low shrub, 2 to 4 feet high, found in rocky places, 

 especially on the tops of mountains, from New England 

 southward to North Carolina and westward. 



The Weigela of our gardens, an early flowering shrub with 

 red or yellow, showy flowers, is a Japanese species of Diervilla. 



Mountain Fly Honeysuckle 



Lonicera caerulea. — Family, Honeysuckle. Color, pale greenish 

 yellow. The specific name comes from the blue berry. Leaves, 

 oval or inversely ovate, 1 to 1^ inches long, blunt at apex, 

 rounded at base, slightly fringed around the margins, opposite, 

 pale green beneath. Flowers, tubular, the calyx very small, the 

 corolla with a 5 -parted spreading border, in pairs in the axils, 

 with short peduncles. In fruiting the two ovaries become united 

 into one and produce a double, roundish, blue black, edible berry. 

 June. 



Low grounds, swamps or bogs, from Pennsylvania to 

 California and northward. 



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