. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. BEDDISH PUBPLE 11 WILD SPIKENARD Vagnera racemosa. Smilacina racemosaLily-of-the-Valley Family Fruit. — The berries grow in a long racemosecluster at the terminus of the leafy, unbranchedstem. They are globular, and when fully ripe,in late September, are translucent and a dullred in color. Before this, they present a pecul-iarly speckled appearance, being whitish, withmany red dots and splashes. The flesh is the ovary is three-celled, with tw^o ovulesin each, the developed berry contains but
. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. BEDDISH PUBPLE 11 WILD SPIKENARD Vagnera racemosa. Smilacina racemosaLily-of-the-Valley Family Fruit. — The berries grow in a long racemosecluster at the terminus of the leafy, unbranchedstem. They are globular, and when fully ripe,in late September, are translucent and a dullred in color. Before this, they present a pecul-iarly speckled appearance, being whitish, withmany red dots and splashes. The flesh is the ovary is three-celled, with tw^o ovulesin each, the developed berry contains but one ortwo large seeds. The fruits have an aromaticflavor. September. Leaves. — The leaves are alternate, nearlystemless, and have tiny hairs along the entirewavy margins. Each is oval-lanceolate, witha long, tapering point. They are so arrangedalong the stem that the plane of the upper sur-face is nearly parallel with the drooping stem,thus exposing it most advantageously to thelight. Floivers. — The small, white, six-parted flowersgrow in terminal, pyramidal clusters. May, Wild Spikenard {Vagnera racemosd)12 BED OR REDDISH PURPLE 13 Both in flower and fruit this plant lends itsattractiveness to the woodside road. The stemis zigzag and somewhat inclined. The rodtstockis stout. It extends south to Georgia and westto Missouri and Arizona. THREE-LEAVED SOLOMONS SEAL Vagnera trifolia. Smilacina trifoliaLily-of-the-Valley Family Fruit. — The globular berries grow in a few-fruited raceme. They are red when ripe. Leaves. — The leaves are usually three innumber, although two or four occasionallyoccur. They are oblong, and taper to a nar-rowed sheathing base. They are acute at theapex. Flowers. — The white, six-parted flowers aresmaller than in V. stellata. This is a smaller plant than False Spikenardor Star-flowered Solomons Seal. A casual ob-server might confuse it with Unifolium Cana-dense, but it may be distinguished from it bythe narrowed sheathing base of its le
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