GREEN OR GREENISH FLOWERS 
Early Meadow Rue (Thalictrum diokum) . Crowfoot 
family. May. 
A delicate branching perennial, maximum height two feet. 
The small stamen-bearing and pistil-bearing flowers are found 
on different plants.- The former are tassel-like on account of 
the many delicate stamens, both have four or five petal-like 
sepals. Leaflets drooping, rounded, lobed. Rocky woods. 
See also Poison Ivy, below. 
GROUP III 
' Climbing or Recumbent 
Poison Ivy. Poison Oak (Rhus Toxicodendron). Cashew 
family. June, July. 
A woody plant, sometimes upright, sometimes climbing. The 
small green flowers (with five petals and five-cleft calyx) are 
in loose axillary clusters, polygamous, i.e., with perfect, stami- 
nate, and pistillate flowers on the same plant or different plants. 
There are three four-sided to egg-shaped leaflets, mostly pointed, 
unequally notched, wavy, or cut, without teeth. Roadsides, 
banks, and woods. Poisonous to many on coming in contact 
with delicate skin, especially in dark, damp places. 
CBinon-fiovjex {Smilax herbacea) . Lily family. May, 
June. 
A vine with smooth stem and flowers in close rounded clus- 
ters, each with six-divided perianth; no pistil on the stanien- 
bearing flower. The leaves are somewhat heart-shaped. Bull- 
brier (5. rotundifolid) is known by its prickles. Woods. 
Climbing Bittersweet. Waxwork ( Celastrus scandens) . 
Staff Tree family. June. 
A twining shrub, with small five-petallcd, polygamo-dicecious 
flowers in clusters (open racemes). Leaves egg-shaped to 
oblong, with teeth. 
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