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WILD FLOWERS AND FRUITS 



Mayweed. Chamomile (Anthemis Coiula). Composite 

 family. 

 Av. ht. 3 ft. ; branching, strong-scented; flowers 

 composite; rays white, disk yellow; flower-heads 

 few on long stalks; leaves finely dissected. Road- 

 sides. Summer and autumn. 



Fig. 41. 



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Chamomile {Anthemis Cotula). 



42. Leaves (neither opposite, wanting, nor from root only) simple, 



flowers in long spike. 



Ladies' Tresses {Spiranthes gracilis). Orchis family. 

 Low plant ; flowers small in twisted spike ; leaves nar- 

 row. Woods and sandy places. Summer and autumn. 



Lizard's Tail {Saururus cernuus). Pepper family. 



Flowers in delicate spike (or raceme) nodding at end ; 

 flowers fragrant; leaves heart-shaped with stalks. 

 Swamps. Early summer. Conn., South and West. 



Water Pepper (Polygonum hydropiperoides). Buck- 

 wheat family. 

 Ht. i-few ft. ; spikes slender, interrupted; flowers 

 small; calyx 5-cleft, no corolla; leaves lance- 

 shaped. Wet places. Early summer. 



