. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. une, he may be, it is true, but doubtless a longperiod of suffering will follow his rash act. WHITE 315 Some persons are poisoned by even passing nearthe plant, contact not being necessary. If in fruit, the whitish color of the drupes andtheir drooping clusters are sure marks by whichthis Sumac may be distinguished from the otherspecies. The entire leaves and lack of wingedpetioles and pubescence are also marks of dis-tinction. POISON, CLIMBING, OR THREE-LEAVEDIVY Rhus radicans Rhus Toxicodendron Sumac
. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. une, he may be, it is true, but doubtless a longperiod of suffering will follow his rash act. WHITE 315 Some persons are poisoned by even passing nearthe plant, contact not being necessary. If in fruit, the whitish color of the drupes andtheir drooping clusters are sure marks by whichthis Sumac may be distinguished from the otherspecies. The entire leaves and lack of wingedpetioles and pubescence are also marks of dis-tinction. POISON, CLIMBING, OR THREE-LEAVEDIVY Rhus radicans Rhus Toxicodendron Sumac Family Fruit — The fruit closely resembles that ofPoison Sumac. September and persistent. Leaves. — The compound leaves have threepale green leaflets, which are sharply toothedand entire or sometimes lobed. This plant is sometimes erect and one to threefeet high, sometimes prostrate and trailing, andsometimes climbing. It supports itself by nu-merous rootlets, which penetrate and hold tena-ciously to various supports. Its three-partedleaves and white fruit distinguish this poisonous. Poison Ivy (Rhus radicans)316 WHITE 317 plant from the harmless Virginia Creeper, Par-thenocissus quinquefolia, which is somewhat simi-lar in its manner of growth. The dryish fruitsare used as food by the winter birds. For crowsespecially they serve as an important article ofdiet. One hundred and fifty-three Poison Ivyseeds are said to have been found in the stomachof one of these birds. The dry outer husks areremoved by action of stomach and thrown outagain in small masses through the mouth. RED-OSIER CORNEL OR DOGWOODComus stolonifera Dogwood Family Fruit. — The drupe is white, or whitish, andglobose. The stone is very variable in fruits grow in flat-topped, rather smallishcymes. Leaves. — The ovate or ovate-lanceolate leafhas an abrupt, short, tapering apex and a roundedbase. The upper surface is finely pubescent andthe lower whitish and somewhat downy. Flowers. — The smallis
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