June and Early July 



pie-leaved viburnum, are noticeable. In 

 places the ground is white with the pretty 

 dwarf cornel or bunch-berry. Each low 

 stem is crowned with four large white, or 

 pink- tipped, petal-like leaves, which sur- 

 round a cluster of tiny greenish flowers ; 

 from four to six oblong, pointed, green 

 leaves are crowded in a circle below. 

 This is the small sister of the well-known 

 dogwood which so lately seemed to link 

 June with January. 



The shrubby dogwoods, some of which 

 are still blossoming along the roadsides, 

 bear a superficial resemblance to the vi- 

 burnums ; but their tiny flowers are mi- 

 nutely four-toothed, while those of the 

 viburnums are five-lobed. Among fall- 

 en, moss-grown trunks we find the clover- 

 like leaflets (resembling those of the com- 

 mon yellow wood -sorrel) and the white, 

 pink-veined flowers of the wood-sorrel. 



Along the sheltered roadside, as well as 

 in the woods, the delicate white bells of 

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