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Descriptive Flora 



HYDRANGEACEAE. Hydrangea family. 

 PMladelphus serpyllifolius Gray. Mock Orange. Wild Syringa. 



A shrub that makes itself known by the lovely orange- 

 blossom fragrance of the pure white, four to five-petaled flowers 

 that singly tip the short, brittle branches. Leaves alternate or 

 opposite. Blades entire, less than three-fourths of an inch long, 

 three-nerved, green above and white with a dense covering of 

 appressed silvery-white hairs beneath. Stamens many. Fruit a 

 small globular capsule. Flowers about one-half inch across, 

 similar to the familiar garden Syringa, commonly known as 

 Mock Orange, only smaller. March and April. On shady lime- 

 stone ledges. Rare. 



ROSACEAE. Rose Family. 

 Rubus trivialis Michx. Dewberry. ' ' Zarzamora ' ' 



Prickly, trailing, evergreen shrub. Leaves palmately com- 

 pound, alternate. Leaflets three to five, sharply saw-toothed. 

 Flowers white, showy, resembling miniature wild roses. Petals 

 five. Stamens numerous. Fruit a delicious, black, juicy oblong 

 berry gathered for food and making an excursion in April and 

 May a pleasure delight. February to April. Shaded moist 

 ground and dry creek beds. Commonly cultivated and very 

 beautiful with its white flowers and scarlet and black fruits 

 when trained over a wire netting. Mr. G. Schmeltzer reports 

 that the dried dewberry roots are made into a tea, which is drunk 

 for hemmorhages. 



Geum canadense Jacq. White Avens. 



(Geum album Gmel.) 



This coarse, hairy plant has a slender, branching stem that 

 grows about one and a half feet high and grows out of a tuft of 

 large, long-stemmed, basal leaves either three to five foliolate or 

 deeply cut into round lobes. Stems leaves three-lobed or three- 

 divided, the lobes irregularly saw-toothed above the middle. 



