VINES AND SHRUBS 



— a small, i -seeded, rounded pod, pallid, beset with fine 

 brown hairs, and which not one person in a thousand of those 

 who know this common plant has ever seen. These are the 

 seeds that plant the soil for next year's vines, and are the 

 fruits of queer little underground blossoms, bearing no more 

 resemblance to those at the ' other end ' than is seen in the 

 pods." — W. H. Gibson. 



Broom Crowberry 

 Corema Conradiu — - Family, Crowberry. Color, purple and 

 brown, from the stamens. Leaves, long, needle - like, densely 

 clustered, especially at the ends of the branches. Flowers, stami- 

 nate and pistillate, in terminal heads, surrounded by several scaly 

 bractlets, without calyx and corolla. Stamens, usually 3, with 

 long, purple, tufted filaments and brownish anthers, showy. 

 Style, 3 -divided, with, sometimes, toothed stigmas. Fruit, a small 

 dry drupe, inclosing 3 or 4 nutlets. April and May. 



A small, curious shrub, from 6 inches to 2 feet high, found 

 in a few places near the coast, Long Island, New Jersey, and 

 Massachusetts to Newfoundland, where it makes, says Tho- 

 reau, " pretty green mounds, 4 or 5 feet in diameter by 1 foot 

 high — soft, springy beds for the wayfarer. ' ' 



Burning Bush. Wahoo 



Evonymus atropurpureus. — Family, Staff Tree. Color, dark 

 purple. Calyx, of 4 or 5 divisions, produced under a short, flat 

 disk. From the edge of the disk arise 4 or 5 petals, roundish, 

 spreading, and as many short stamens. At length the disk covers 

 and adheres to the deeply lobed, crimson pod. Flowers, in loose 

 clusters in the axils, long-peduncled. Leaves, oblong or ovate, sharp- 

 ly pointed at apex, acute at base, narrowly toothed, on petioles. June. 



Cultivated for its brilliant pods in autumn, but growing 

 wild from New York to Wisconsin and southward to Florida. 



Strawberry Bush 



E. americknus. — Color, greenish purple. Leaves, opposite, 

 sessile, thick, glossy green, 2 to 3 inches long, slightly hairy on 

 the veins underneath. Parts of the flower in fives. The seeds, 

 surrounded by red pulp (an aril) , are attached to a crimson, rough- 

 warty pod. 



A shrub, 2 to 5 feet in height, irregular, very striking when 

 in fruit. I have found it in New Jersey along banks of 

 streams and drier roadsides. New York southward and 

 westward to Illinois. 



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