WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 



and trees in moist woods and thickets, where it blos- 

 soms from May to July. The slender stalk is round 

 and grooved, and grows from two to seven inches in 

 height. The alternating, broad-oval leaves have a 

 short-tipped, blunt point and are heart-shaped with 

 a narrow slit at the base where they are either clasping 

 or short-stemmed. The surface is smooth and shin- 

 ing, and the veinings are parallel. They are yellowish- 

 green in colour, becoming stained and rusty with age. 

 The tiny, fragrant, waxy-white flower has four spreading 

 petal-like parts, and four cream-tipped stamens. 

 They are crowded on a short terminal spike, and are 

 followed with round, grayish or creamy white red- 

 speckled berries, which finally become dark, shining, 

 ruby red in colour. There is not the slightest resem- 

 blance to the Lily of the Valley of our gardens, and 

 this name is therefore misleading. This rather dainty 

 species occurs in scattered or dense colonies from 

 Canada to North Carolina, Iowa, and South Dakota. 



HAIRY, TRUE OR TWIN-FLOWERED 

 SOLOMON'S SEAL 



Polygonatum biflorum. Lily Family. 



A common and graceful species growing in woods 

 and thickets in company with the Wild Spikenard, 

 and frequently confused with it. The upper part of the 

 slender, leafy, unbranched stalk is often angular and 

 curved. It rises from eight inches to three feet in 

 height. The toothless, oval, pointed or lance-shaped 

 leaves are alternately on the stalk, and are smooth above 



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