flowers are pink. This plant ranges with its sister. They 

 both bloom in early summer. 



HAIRY DISPORUM, Disporum lanuginosum, resembles 

 the last. It is a finely hairy herb, with 1-3 terminal, 

 greenish, erect flowers and an oval, red berry. It grows 

 in the woods, through Ontario and the Eastern-coast 

 States, and blooms in late spring. 



ROUGH-FRUITED DISPORUM, D. trachycarpum, is simi- 

 lar, with roughish, leathery fruit and yellowish-white 

 flowers. It blooms from May to August across Canada 

 and west of the Mississippi. 



FALSE LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY, Unifolium Canadense 

 (Maianthemum Canadense}, is a smooth little plant with 

 1-3 oval, alternate, shining leaves and a terminal raceme 

 of small, creamy- white flowers with four segments and four 

 stamens. It has an odor rather like the true Lily-of-the- 

 Valley, but fainter. The berry is pale red and speckled. 

 It blooms in late spring, from Newfoundland to North 

 Carolina and west to South Dakota. 



Convallaria majalis is the true LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY. 

 It has the 2-4 oblong leaves from near the root and the 

 scape of bell-shaped, six-lobed, white, fragrant flowers 

 with which we are so familiar. It grows wild on high 

 mountains in Virginia and the Carolinas and is com- 

 mon in cultivation. It blooms in May and June. 



PLATE XI 



INDIAN CUCUMBER ROOT, Medeola Virginlana. Root. 

 A short, fleshy rootstock. Stem. Simple, i-2^ 

 high. Leaves. Broadly lanceolate, in two whorls; the 

 lower at the middle of the stem and the upper at the apex 

 just beneath the flowers. Flowers. In a terminal, few- 

 flowered umbel, on stalks which are bent for the flower 

 and erect for the fruit. Perianth (a). Of six green- 

 ish yellow oval segments. Stamens (ft). Six, with 

 orange anthers. Pistil (c). With three long recurved 

 reddish-brown, thread-like stigmas. Fruit. A dark- 

 purple berry. 



This odd-looking plant grows in moist woods from 

 Nova Scotia to Florida and west to Minnesota. It 

 blooms in early summer. Its berries are more showy 



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