THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



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of the painted trillium {TrilHum undulatum) on the north 

 slope of Johnny Cake Mountain in Budington. I found 

 them with berries nearly full grown, but not yet begin- 

 ning to change color. By the way, a compact bed of the 

 painted trilHum in fruit, each with its bright scarlet coni- 

 cal berry held upright three or four inches above the foli- 

 age, is as interesting and nearly as beautiful a sight as the 

 same plant in flower. In searching through the dense 

 bushes for the trilliums, I found a compact bed of winter- 

 green extending from the deep shade out into more open 

 space. They were heavity fruited, each plant having from 

 four to eight berries. On the shaded side of the bed I 

 found a few plants in flower, and on the sunny side there 

 were plants with berries beginning to turn red on one side^ 

 I have often picked considerable quantities of wintergreen 

 berries in June, in fact, in gathering the young and tender 

 shoots in early June, we nearly always find numerous last 

 year's berries in perfect condition. 



In July, 1900, we were hunting for the whorled pogo- 

 nia (P. verticillata) and found them with seed pods near- 

 ly full grown. In an adjoining lot were quantities of win- 

 tergreen, man}^ of them loaded with fruit, mosth^ very 

 large and in perfect condition. In all these cases a small 

 proportion of the berries will not be much larger than 

 they were in the fall, while others will be sometimes enor- 

 mously swollen. As to the partridge berry we have no 

 difficulty in finding quantities of them ripe early in Sept« 

 ember. Several years ago my wife took a bunch of the 

 tips of the vines, containing the beautiful and fragrant 

 little twin flowers, and put them in a tumbler of water 

 which she placed in a window. They remained there 

 through the summer, perfecting and ripening their berries, 

 which remained in good order through the autumn and 

 the following winter until spring, when, the foliage hav- 

 ing become discolored, she threw them awa3^. For sever- 

 al years she has taken the tips of the vines containing the 

 berries and planted them with mosses, etc., in various re- 

 ceptacles, where they would flourish through the winter. 



