VINES AND SHRUBS 



Marsh Clematis 



C. crispa. — Flowers, purple, bell - shape, i to i $ inches long, 

 the tips of the sepals deeply curved backward. No petals. 

 Fruit, silky. Leaves, pinnate, mostly 3 -divided, the leaflets 

 often 3 -parted. May to August. 



A marsh species found in Virginia and southward. 

 Shrub Yellow-root 



Zanthorhiza apiifdlia. — Family, Crowfoot. Color, dull purple. 

 Petals, smaller than the sepals, which are petal-like and give the 

 color to the flower. Stamens, 5 or 10. Pistils, 5 to 15. Flowers, 

 small, on short pedicels, 2 or 3 together, making long spikes or 

 compound racemes along the slender branches. Leaves, on slen- 

 der, long petioles, pinnate or bipinnate, the leaflets being again 

 divided, all doubly serrate, pointed, of a glossy green. April 

 and May. 



Low, shrubby plants, 1 to 2 feet high, with yellow bark and 

 root, both very bitter to the taste, found along shaded banks 

 of streams from southwestern New York and Pennsylvania 

 southward. 



Sweet-scented Shrub. Strawberry Shrub. Carolina 

 Allspice 



Calycanthus floridus. — Family, Calycanthus. Color, brown or 

 purplish. Petals and sepals many, joined to the top of the calyx- 

 tube, narrow, thick. Stamens, many, some of them without 

 anthers. Pistils, springing from within the calyx-tube. This 

 cup enlarges, and when ripe, incloses the achenes. Flowers, sin- 

 gle, at the ends of leafy shoots. When crushed they give out the 

 fragrance of a strawberry. Leaves, opposite, entire, oval, downy 

 underneath, smooth above, dark green. April to August. 



A shrub 4 to 8 feet high, thickly branching, known in the 

 North mostly as a cultivated garden shrub ; indigenous from 

 Virginia to North Carolina and westward, growing in rich soil 

 on hillsides. 



C. fertilis. — A similar species with unscented flowers, found in 

 the Alleghany Mountains. Its fruit is said to be poisonous to 

 sheep. 



Climbing Fumitory. Mountain Fringe 



Adlumia fungosa. — Family, Fumitory. Color, white or pur- 

 plish, sometimes pinkish. Sepals, 2, scale-like. Petals, 4, irreg- 

 ular, in 2 pairs, double-spurred, the inside pair narrower than 



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