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simple, opposite, sometimes alternate. Uppermost blades entire, 

 others cut into 3 to 7 lobes. Buds red. Petals 5 or 6, yellow 

 within, three partly red on the under side. Stamens 2, sometimes 

 3. Pods round like peas, in pairs, and opening by a lid. March to 

 November. In lawns, along the roads and in pastures. 



Forestiem pubescens Nutt. Spring Heralds. 



(Adelia pubescens [Nutt.] Kuntze.) Spring Golden Glow. 



Wide-branching shrub with yellow flowers appearing before 

 the leaves in January and February in tiny clusters along the 

 branchlets of the preceding year. Flowers are staminate and 

 pistillate on separate bushes. Staminate blossoms conspicuous, 

 consisting of clusters of many tiny yellow stamens of several 

 lengths, in a shallow cup of 4 or 5 small, flat, broad often reddish 

 sepals. Petals none. Pistillate blossoms inconspicuous, usually 

 noticed in an advanced stage of development, where one finds 

 several pistils (usually 5) in a cluster each on a hairy pedicel 

 about y£ long. At the base of the pistils is a ring of usually 5 

 minute stamens. Fruit clusters of small, oblong, blue drupes, 

 ripening in early summer. Leaves simple, opposite. Prefers 

 shaded, rocky ground, forming much of the underbush in some 

 localities, due to the wide-spreading habit of its many branches. 

 One of the first shrubs to bloom in early spring. 



LOGANIACEAE. Logania Family. 

 SPIGELIACEAE. Logania Family. In Small's Flora. 

 Cynoctonum mitreola (L.) Britton. Mitrewort. 

 {Mitreola petiolata [Walt.] Torr. & Gray.) 



Pale green, fleshy leaved plants, 6 to 18 inches tall, with 

 small white flowers in elongated clusters coiled at the ends like a 

 scorpion's tail, and growing in mud or very moist banks of 

 ponds and streams. Stems fleshy, simple or branched at base. 

 Leaves simple, opposite. Blades 1 to 3" long, entire, linear to 

 oblong, the lower oblanceolate. Corolla 5-lobed, less than one- 

 eighth inch across. May, June and July. 



