COLOR KEY 



PLANTS NOT LISTED IN KEY 



Skunk-Cabbage. With large, fleshy spathe. Spathyema fcetida. 



Golden-Club. Flowers yellow at the summit of the scape, the 

 spathe becoming a mere bract. Orontiiini aquaticum. 



Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Spathe green and purple, striped, curv- 

 ing over the top of the spadix. AriscEma triphyllnm. 



Upright Smilax. Smilax ecirrhata. 



Early Meadow-Rue. Dioecious; flowers green; the yellowish 

 anthers of the staminate plant hanging on long filaments. 

 Thaliciriim dioicum. 



Pink Corydalis. Flowers whitish; tips touched with yellow 

 and pink; one short and rounded spur. Corydalis glauca. 



Golden Corydalis. Flowers golden yellow with rounded spur. 

 Corydalis aurea. 



Blue Cohosh. Flowers greenish purple ; petals 6. Caulophyl- 

 lum thalictroides. 



Shooting- Star. Flowers in an umbel; nodding, pointed, whit- 

 ish, with a cone of stamens grown together. Dodecatheon 

 meadia. 



Bunchberry. Low plant with flowers resembling the Flower- 

 ing Dogwood. Cornus Canadensis, 



Cypress-Spurge. Flowers yellowish green; plant usually ap- 

 pearing in beds; stems very leafy. Euphorbia cyparissias. 



Rib-Grass. One of the bad Plantain weeds. Plantago lanceo- 

 lata. 



Field Horsetail. Not a flowering plant; fertile stems appear- 

 ing abundantly in early spring in sandy soil. Equisetum 

 arvense. 



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