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If we were lost in the woods, and obliged to live 
upon the plants about us, I dare say we should eat, 
and perhaps enjoy eating, many things which now 
seem quite impossible ; 
but until this happens I 
advise you not to ex- 
periment with — strange 
leaves and roots and ber- 
ries. Every little while 
one reads of the death 
of some child as the re- 
sult of eating a poisonous 
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plant. 
The next picture (Fig. 38) shows you the fruit of 
Solomon’s seal. These dark-blue berries hang from 
beneath the leafy stem, just as the little flowers hung 
their yellow heads last May. 
Next come the speckled red berries of the false Solo- 
mon’s seal (Fig. 39), a big cousin of the smaller plant. 
As you see, this bears its fruit quite differently, all in a 
cluster at the upper part of the 
stem. These two plants seem to 
be great chums, constantly grow- 
ing side by side. 
We have been so busy and so 
happy that the morning has flown, 
and now we must be finding our 
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way home to dinner; for, unlike 
the birds, we are not satisfied to dine on berries alone. 
At almost every step we long to stop and look at 
some new plant in fruit; for, now that we have learned 
