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Adirondack stream. Or else it thickly carpets the peat-bog 

 where we are hunting cranberries, or brightens the moist mossy 

 woods which earlier in the year were redolent with the breath 

 of the twin-flower. Its aromatic flavor suggests the wintergreen 

 and sweet ')irch. 



FALSE SOLOMON'S SEAL. 



Smilacina racemosa. Lily family. 



SfevK — Usually curving ; one to three feet long. Leaves. — Oblong; 

 veiny. Flowers. — Greenish-white; small ; in a terminal raceme. Perianth. 

 ' -Six-parted. Statnens. — Six. Pistil. — One. Print. — A pale red berry 

 •.peckled with purple. 



A singular lack of imagination is betrayed in the common 

 name of this plant. Despite a general resemblance to the true 

 Solomon's seal, and the close proximity in which the two are 

 constantly found, S. racemosa has enough originality to deserve 

 an individual title. The position of the much smaller flowers is 

 markedly different. Instead of drooj)ing beneath the stem they 

 terminate it, having frequently a pleasant fragrance, while the 

 berries of late summer are pale red, flecked with purple. It puz- 

 zles one to understand why these two plants should so constantly 

 be found growing side by side — so close at times that they al- 

 most appear to spring from one point. The generic name is 

 from smilax, on account of a supposed resemblance between the 

 leaves of this plant and those which belong to that genus. 



BLACK HAW. 



Viburnum prunifoliurn. Honeysuckle Family. 



A tall shrub or small tree. Leaves. — Oval; finely and sharply toothed. 

 Flmver's. — White ; small ; in flat-topped clusters. Calyx — Five-toothed. 

 Corolla. — Wheel-shaped ; five-lobed. Stamens. — Five. Pistil. — One. 

 Fruit. — Berry-like; oval; black, or with bluish bloom. 



In May one of the most beautiful and noticeable of our 

 white-flowered shrubs or trees is the black haw. Its flat, circular 

 flower-clusters are usually very perfect and spotless. They are 

 massed abundantly along the country lanes. 



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