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WHITE VETCHLING 



Lathyrus ochrolcucus. Pea Family 



Stems: slender, trailing. Leaves: leaflets in three to four pairs, 

 ovate, distinctly petioled; stipules semi-cordate, entire. Flowers: seven- 

 to-ten flowered, ochroleuctis ; tendrils branched. Fruit: pods oblong- 

 linear, sessile, glabrous. 



No one wandering in the summer woods can mistake this 

 dainty, delicate White Vetchling, which trails along the 

 ground, climbs over fallen trees, and twines its tiny branch- 

 ing tendrils about the shrubs beside which it grows. The 

 flowers resemble those of the common garden green pea. 



WHITE GERANIUM 



Geranium Richardsonii. Geranium Family 



Stems: erect with slender branches, one to three feet high. Leaves: 

 deeply five-to-seven-cleft, lobes sharply incised. Flowers: petals entire, 

 hirsute at base; sepals glandular, pilose. 



This Geranium is almost invariably white, but very occa- 

 sionally it is purple-red. The plant is a handsome one, tall, 

 with rich foliage and fine flowers. 



WATER FENNEL 



Callitriche palustris. Water Starwort Family 



An aquatic herb. Stems: submerged ones linear, bifid at the apex; 

 floating ones obovate, obtuse, dotted with stellate scales. Fruit: com- 

 pressed, lobed, winged only towards the apex, separated by a deep 

 groove. 



This plant is found chiefly in running water, or growing 

 in the mud. It has minute flowers and a lobed winged 

 fruit. 



