WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 



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Watkr Cress {Xastiirtinin officinale). Mustard family. 

 Water plant; sepals 4, petals 4; leaves pinnate; 

 leaflets 3-1 1, round or oblong, almost without 

 teeth. Brooks and ditches. 



White Sweet Clover. White Melilot (Melilotus 

 alba). Pulse family. 

 Av. ht. 3 ft.; flowers small, papilionaceous, fra- 

 grant, in slender racemes; leaflets 3. Waste 

 "rounds. Earlv summer-autumn. 



White sweet clover {Melilotus alba). 



Black Snake-root. Black Cohosh {Cimicijuga face- 

 mosa). Crowfoot family. 

 Ht. several ft.; flowers in lotig racemes; sepals 4 

 or 5 ; petals 4-8 ; stamens many ; leaves 2-3 limes 

 divided; leaflets pointed, sharply toothed. Rich 

 woods. Summer. 



See also W\\ter-leaf (40). 



35. Leaves (neither opposite, wanting, nor from root only) compound 

 or finely dissected, flowers in umbel, plant 1 ft. or under. 



Harbinger-of-sprixg {Erigeuiabulbosa) . Parsley famil v. 

 Ht. under i ft.; flowers few, small, in compound 

 umbels; 5 petals; leaves 2-4, long-stalked, many 

 narrow leaflets. Limited localities, e.g., Washing- 

 ton. Early spring. 



