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376 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



almost any pine and oak, deep and cool woods, looking in 

 the distance like a bunch of tall fungi. 



These singular parasites have a wide range over the whole 

 United States. 



45. Creeping Snowberry 



Chiogenes serpyllifolia. — Family, Heath. Color, white; 

 berries, white. Leaves, evergreen, pointed, with margins rolled 

 over, ovate, less than ^ inch long. I'imc, Ma}-. 



Calyx, 4- parted; 2 large bractlets underneath. Corolla, 

 deeply 4-divided. Stamens, 8. Flowers, small, nodding in 

 leaf axils on short peduncles. Fruit, a round, white, many- 

 seeded berry. Slender stem and leaves rough, bristly. 



The flowers of this pretty, trailing plant are small and shy, hid- 

 ing in early spring in leafy corners among moss, in peat-bogs of 

 New York and Pennsylvania, in the cool woods of the Adiron- 

 dacks and Alleghanies. In summer it grows more bold, and 

 flashes up from among its dark-green, shining leaves, the round, 

 pure white berries. It is a plant fragrant of birch, belonging 

 with moss, fern, and streamlet, thoroughly wild. 



46. Shooting-Star, American Cowslip 



Dodecaiheon Meadia. — Family, Primrose. Color, deep 

 pink or white. Jxairs, in a cluster at the root, oblong, or 

 broader at apex than at base. Time, May, June, 



Calyx and corolla, 5-cleft, the divisions of the corolla being 

 long and narrow. Stamens, generally 5, their anthers coming 

 together and forming a cone. Flowers, showy, in an umbel, at 

 the top of a naked scape, surrounded by an involucre of small 

 bracts. 



A iiandsome plant with range from Pennsylvania southward. 

 Sometime? cultivated. 



47. Star-flower. Chickweed-wintergreen 

 Trientalis Americana. — Family, Primrose. Color, white. 



