HERBACEOUS PLANTS 



The baneberry's beauty comes in the fall when 

 most human woodfarers are not bent on picking 

 posies. The baneberry's fruit is so sensitive that 

 it is likely to fall before it can be brought to vase. 

 And, best of all, it has the repute of being poison- 

 ous (hence the name), and for this reason it is 

 seldom molested. 



"Such a marvel of a fruit. It is as white as 

 the whitest thing you know with a black dot on 

 the end of it. Some one has aptly likened it to 

 the china eyes of dolls. Yet its whiteness is not 

 its only claim. Each whitest white berry is borne 

 on a fat little stemlet of deep claret red. And so 

 perhaps we may stretch a point and class this 

 most arresting of woodland fruits among the pre- 

 dominating reds." — Carl T. Robertson. 



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