WHITE OR WHITISH flowers 



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47. Leaves (neither opposite nor from root only) simple, flowers 

 solitary or few, large. 



Laurel Magnoli.x. Sweet Bay {Magnolia glatica). 

 Magnolia family. 

 Tall shrub; flowers large, globular, very fragrant; 

 leaves thick. Swamps. Early summer. 



May-apple. Mandrake {Podophyllum peltatimi). Bar- 

 berry family. 

 Ht. I ft. ; flower-stem with two large leaves; flowers 

 from crotch, nearly 2 in. broad; sepals 6; petals 

 about 7, inversely egg-shaped; fiowerless stem end- 

 ing in a large (i ft.) round, lobed leaf, leaf-stalk 

 inserted in the middle like an umbrella. Rich woods. 

 Spring. Western Quebec, West and South. 



Fig. 45- 



Fig. 46. 



Leather-leaf (Cassandra calyculata). 



Thorn-apple (Datura Stramonium.) 



Thorn-apple (Datura Stramonium) . Nightshade family. 

 Ht. several ft.; rank, bad-smelling weed; flowers 4 in., 

 short-stalked in crotch of stem; corolla resembling 

 morning glory ; leaves rather large. Waste grounds. 



Ox-eyed or White Daisy. White-weed {Chrysan- 

 themum Leucanthemum) . Composite family. 

 Stems erect, bearing single large flower-heads; rays 

 white; disk yellow; root-leaves broad at end, with 

 stalk, others partly clasping, all pinnatcly cut or 

 toothed. Fields and meadows. Early summer. 



