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WILD FLOWERS AND FRUITS 



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

 flowers in raceme, plant upright, herbs under 4 ft. 



Wild Lily-of-the-valley {Maianthemum Canadense). 

 Lily family. 

 Ht. few inches; flowers small with 4-parted peri- 

 anth; stamens 4; leaves 2 or 3, long, pointed, 

 heart-shaped at base, without stalks or with very 

 short ones. Woods. Spring, summer. 



Fig. 43- 



Wild lily-of the- valley (^Maianthemum Canadense.) 



Water Pimpernel {Samolus Valerandi). Primrose 



family. 



Ht. ^-i ft.; flower-stalks long and delicate; leaves 



without teeth, inversely egg-shaped or spoon-shaped, 



those at base clustered. Wet places. Spring, summer. 



Peppergrass {Lepidium Virginicimi). Mustard family. 

 Av. ht. I ft. ; a common roadside weed with branches 

 bearing small keeled pods of peppery taste, in a long 

 raceme and a few terminal blossoms; flowers small; 

 leaves lance-shaped, those at base inversely egg- 

 shaped. Spring, autumn. 



