. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. e berries remain on the vines for along time, and it is quite common to find flowers,fruit, and even tiny green fruits at the sametime. Leaves. — The round-ovate or heart-shaped,shiny leaves vary from light to dark have prominent white veinings. Theygrow in pairs on short stems and are evergreen. Floioers. — The flowers grow in pairs and areunited by their ovaries. They are very daintywith their white linings of soft fine hairs at thethroat and an outside coloring of pink. Theyalso have a del
. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. e berries remain on the vines for along time, and it is quite common to find flowers,fruit, and even tiny green fruits at the sametime. Leaves. — The round-ovate or heart-shaped,shiny leaves vary from light to dark have prominent white veinings. Theygrow in pairs on short stems and are evergreen. Floioers. — The flowers grow in pairs and areunited by their ovaries. They are very daintywith their white linings of soft fine hairs at thethroat and an outside coloring of pink. Theyalso have a delicate fragrance. This vine and its near relative, the QuakerLadies, are our northern representatives of thefamily which includes such tropical plants ascoffee and cinchona, the latter yielding rejmis, besides belonging to our range,grows in the forests of Mexico and Japan. Itfrequents dry woods, especially pine forests, andtrails its vines in masses around the foot of trees,the base of rocks, and over many a pine needlecarpeted space. The contrast of the green vine. RED OR REDDISH PURPLE 133 and its bright berries with the brown of theneedles is so charming that one wonders that ithas not been copied for our indoor low glass dish filled with wood earth and con-taining a root or two of Ebony Fern, a littleRattlesnake Plantain, and a few vines of the Par-tridge Berry will serve all winter to shut-ins asa most delightful reminder of the woods. The plant is named for Dr. John Mitchell, anearly Virginian botanist. RED-BERRIED ELDER Sambucus pubens. Sambucus racemosaHoneysuckle Family Fruit — The red berry like drupes grow incompact pyramidal clusters. Each fruit is glob-ular and crowned with remnants of calyx andstyle. The inclosed seedlike nutlets numberfrom three to five. June. Leaves. — The opposite leaves are compoundwith five to seven ovate-lanceolate leaflets. Theseare finely toothed and acute. Floivers. — The small cream-white flowers,
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