WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 



and now furnishes a medicine for nervous affections. 

 It is a slender, tall, stately, leafy stemmed plant, grow- 

 ing from three to eight feet high in shady and rocky 

 woods, where it blossoms from June to August. The 

 alternating, long-stemmed leaves are thrice compounded 

 of thin, smooth, pointed-oblong, and deeply toothed or 

 cleft leaflets. The terminal leaflet is often again 

 divided. The stamens of the small white flowers are 

 exceedingly numerous and give a very soft, downy 

 appearance to the slender spike which forms the floral 

 arrangement. This perennial herb is found from 

 Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin, and south to Georgia 

 and Missouri. The Latin name is derived from 

 cimex, a bug, and jugere, to drive away. 



COHOSH. WHITE BANEBERRY. HERB- 

 CHRISTOPHER. RATTLESNAKE HERB 



Actaea alba. Crowfoot Family. 



Slip through the thicket that skirts the country 

 roadway and into the damp, shaded ravine or hillside 

 where the Jack-in-the-Pulpit is capering during May, 

 and the chances are, as you make your way through 

 the sparse undergrowth, that you will unconsciously 

 brush aside the large, soft leaves of the knee-high 

 Cohosh. The large, loose, fluffy, oblong, and cylindri- 

 cal mass of tiny, fuzzy flowers resemble a glass chimney 

 or bottle-cleaner as much as anything. The small 

 white flowers have from three to five petal-like sepals, 

 that drop as they open, exposing from four to ten tiny, 

 narrow, blunt, or claw-tipped petals which soon fall 



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