HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Running Strawberry Bush 

 £". obwatus. — Color, greenish purple. A trailing shrub, with 

 branches rooting. Leaves, with short petioles, opposite, thin, 

 obtuse, inversely ovate, finely toothed. Peduncles, shorter than 

 the leaves, bearing i to 4 small flowers. April and May. 



Seldom more than 1 foot high, spreading on the ground. 

 Found in low, moist grounds from Pennsylvania, Kentucky, 

 Indiana northward. The commonest of the three species. 



Bittersweet 



Solknum dulca.ma.ra.. — Family, Nightshade. Color, bluish pur- 

 ple. Leaves, on petioles, the upper ones deeply parted near the 

 base into opposite, ear-like leaflets; the lower ones heart-shape, 

 acutely pointed at apex. Calyx and corolla, 5 -parted. Corolla 

 wheel - shape, the points often turning backward much like a 

 potato blossom; a pair of green spots on the base of each lobe. 

 Stamens, 5, their filaments short, anthers closing around the 

 style, opening by 2 chinks at the top. Fruit, an oval, red berry. 

 June to September. 



A woody-stemmed plant, climbing or twining over fences 

 and stone walls along roadsides. The cymes of delicate 

 flowers give place to crimson, showy berries in fall. 



