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New Jersey Tea — Contiuucd. 



Ceanoilms sanguineus, Pursb, Four to 12 feet : ou tributaries of Missouri River 



in Rocky Mouutain region : branches reddish. 

 Ceanothus Fendleri, Gray. One to 2 feet : New Mexico to Colorado : brauclies 



grayish, spiny; leaves small, wliite-silky below. 



ViTACE^ : Fine Family. 



Wild Grape. Vitis rijyaria, Miclix. Colorado (abundant in Atlantic region) : leaves 

 with 3 long-pointed lobes ; fruit more or less with bloom. 



Virginia Creeper. Am^pelopsis quinquefolia, Mlchx. Colorado (and throughout east- 

 ern United States) : fruit blackish : 5 leaflets, crimson in fall. "American 

 Ivy. "Woodbine." 



ANACARDiACEiE : Casheiv Family. 



Smooth Sumach. lihus glabra, L. Three to 12 feet: Colorado, Utah, Idaho (east- 

 ward to the Atlantic): fruit in dense mass (thyrse), crimson, hairy. 



Poison Ivy. Poison Oak. Bhus Toxicodendrov, L. Climbing: Colorado, Wyo- 

 ming, Utah (eastward, to Atlantic): 3 leaflets; fruit whit'iah ; jioisonoiis 

 to the touch. 



Rhus aromatica. Ait., var. trilohaia. Gray. Two to 5 feet : abundant in Rock Mount- 

 ain region (and westward): 3 leaflets; strong-scented. 



Rosacea : Eose Family. 



Meadow Sweet. Spiraea hetulifoUa, Pallas. One to 2 feet: head-waters of Misssouri 

 River in Rocky Mountain region (westward to northern California and 

 northward beyond the United States boundary ; eastward to Alleghanies) : 

 flowers purplish; bark reddish. Var. rosea (Gray), has rose-colored flowers : 

 Wyoming, Idaho (to Oregon and California). 



Nine Bark. Physocarpus opnlifolia, Maxim. Three to 10 feet: throughout the 

 United States: flowers white, in flat clusters; bark grayish, loose, parting 

 in layers. 



Physocarpus Torreyi, Maxim. Lower and with leaves smaller than in the pre- 

 ceding : Colorado to Nevada, 'n the mountains. 



C'HAMzEBATiARiA MILLEFOLIUM, Maxim. Western Wyoming to California: flowers 

 large, white; stout, mnchhmuchQd, glandular-hairy. 



HOLODISCUS DISCOLOR, Maxim. Four feet or more : New Mexico, Colorado (and 

 westward to Pacific), flowers white; hairy, spreading, and with gray- 

 brown bark. Var. dumosa (Maxim.), 1 to 3 feet, with smaller leaves and 

 less spreading. 



Salmon Berry. Rubus Nutkanus, Mo^ino. Three to 8 feet : Colorado to Montana 

 (westward to the Pacific; eastward to northern Michigan): glandular- 

 hairy; flowers large, white ; fruit large, ret?, pleasant;. 



RuBus deliciosus, James. Three to 4 feet : Colorado : flowers very large, white ; 

 fruit large, purple^ not agreeable. 



Wild Red Raspberry. Iluhus strigosns, Michx. Two to 3 feet: New Mexico to 

 Montana (in Nevada; eastward through northern half of the United States) 

 fruit red, pleasant; stiff-bristly ; wood dying down every two years. 



Black Raspberry. Thimble Berry. Buhus occidcntalis,L. Three to 8 feet : New 

 Mexico to Wyoming (westward to the coast; eastward to Missouri, thence 

 throughout Eastern states) : stemg with keen, hooked pricMes ; fruit black- 

 ish, pleasant. 



