. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 74 FAMILIAR PEATUKES OP THE ROADSIDE. finds its way to the borders of tlie mountain road; we can always tell it by the flavor of wintergreen in both leaf and berry. The leaves are tiny and ovate-pointed, the minute flowers grow solitary at the junction of the leaf with the main stem, and bloom in May, and the clear, snow-white berries appear in late summer. It is cer- tainly the daintiest member of the Heath family. I very fre- quently flnd it in the damp woods of the White Mountains. On the rocky hi
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 74 FAMILIAR PEATUKES OP THE ROADSIDE. finds its way to the borders of tlie mountain road; we can always tell it by the flavor of wintergreen in both leaf and berry. The leaves are tiny and ovate-pointed, the minute flowers grow solitary at the junction of the leaf with the main stem, and bloom in May, and the clear, snow-white berries appear in late summer. It is cer- tainly the daintiest member of the Heath family. I very fre- quently flnd it in the damp woods of the White Mountains. On the rocky hillsides of ISTew Jersey and Pennsylvania, and dis- tributed in the far ISTorth and the West as far as Missouri, is the low-growing little plant called bearberry (Arcfo- staphylos TJva- Urn't). Its small leaves are thick and evergreen, and it trails over the barren, stony ground, much as the arbutus does, but in thick mats. The leaves are toothless and smooth. The flowers appear in May ; they are urn-shaped, flesh-color pink-tipped, and are succeeded by astringent red berries, which are mealy and flavorless; as they remain on the plants through the winter, they furnish acceptable food for the winter birds. The species A. aljoina, with de-. Creoping . Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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