WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 



and narrowed bases. They are short-stemmed, and the 

 indistinctly sharp-toothed margins are turned back- 

 ward. They are borne alternately in small terminal 

 clusters at the top of the branching stems. At first the 

 leaves are light yellowish green, becoming darker and 

 bronzed with age. The small white, bell-like flowers 

 are usually solitary and hang nodding from among the 

 leaves. They are urn-shaped, minutely five-toothed, 

 and are succeeded by a bright red, mealy, and very 

 spicy-flavoured fruit. This fruit consists of the seed 

 case that is enclosed when ripe by the calyx, which 

 thickens and turns fleshy and appears as a globular 

 red berry. The berry-like fruit is found in October 

 and throughout the winter. The flower season con- 

 tinues from June to September, and the plant is found 

 from Newfoundland to Manitoba, southward to New 

 Jersey, Georgia and Michigan. 



CREEPING SNOWBERRY. MOXIE PLUM 



Cbiogenes hispidula. Huckleberry Family. 



In cool, damp woods where the exquisite Twin-flower 

 and familiar Clintonia love to dwell, this daintiest of our 

 low, trailing plants decorates the mossy hummocks of 

 smouldering stumps with its beautiful, evergreen foliage. 

 It is a very slender, hairy stemmed, and branching 

 creeper with two rows of very tiny, stiff, rounded or 

 pointed oval, dark green alternating leaves. They 

 are glossy above and rusty-haired beneath and, on the 

 curled edges, are also hairy. The tiny, solitary, white 

 flowers spring sparingly from the leaf axils on short, 



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