8o WHITE TO GREEN 



PALM-LEAF COLTSFOOT 



Pi'/as/Us pahfiaia. Composite Family 



Stems: scaly, stout. Leaves: orbicular in outline, deeply seven-to-eleven 

 cleft, green and glabrous above, densely white tomentose beneath. 

 Flowers: in a fastigiate panicle. 



The chief distinction between the different species of Colts- 

 foot lies in the shape of their respective leaves. Those of the 

 Palm-leaf Coltsfoot are exactly like a large palm leaf, while its 

 blossoms are white and very fragrant. The flower-stalks are 

 thick and juicy and covered with small narrow leaves. It has 

 silky -haired seeds like a dandelion. 



P. sagittata, or Arrow-leaf Coltsfoot, has huge leaves with 

 two very marked pointed lobes at the base. Its flower-heads 

 grow compactly at the top of very stout stalks, and are white 

 and fragrant. 



P. frigida, or Arctic Coltsfoot, has few blossoms, a scaly 

 stem, and very irregularly lobed leaves. The foliage of all the 

 Coltsfoots is green and smooth on the top, and white and 

 woolly underneath. They are coarse uninteresting plants. 



WHITE THISTLE 



Ciiicus erioccphalus. Composite Family 



Stems: loosely arachnoid-woolly, very leafy. Leaves: pinnatitid into 

 numerous crowded, prickly, short lobes. Flowers: sessile and crowded into 

 a leaf-subtended nodding glomerule. 



The flowers of these white or cream-coloured Thistles are 

 surrounded by a mass of narrow prickly leaves and are large 

 and handsome. 



WHITE HEATH 

 Cassiope Mertensiana. Heath Family 



Stems: rather stout, rigid, ascending with fastigiate branches, low- 

 growing. Leaves: glabrous, carinate, and not furrowed on the back, 

 imbricated in four ranks ; corolla five-lobed. 



