1 86 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



corolla which equals the tips of the calyx segments in 

 length. 



STAR-FLOWER 



Trientalis arctica. Primrose Family 



Rootstock creeping, sending up many stem-like branches, which are 

 naked below, the leaves all in a verticil of five to ten at the summit. 

 Leaves: membranous, lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, sessile. 

 Flowers: solitary or few; calyx usually of seven sepals; corolla wheel- 

 shaped, of seven petal-like segments. 



The pretty blossoms of this Star-flower are generally 

 white, though sometimes tinged with mauvish-pink, and so 

 gracefully are they poised on slender stalks above a whorl of 

 pointed leaves that every puff of wind blows them gently to 

 and fro. The number seven recurs with marked frequency 

 in this particular plant, the calyx is seven-parted, the 

 corolla segments are seven, and the stamens seven, while the 

 leaves of the whorl also are usually seven in number, some 

 being large and some small. 



Bryant writes of the alpine meadows, 



" Where star-flowers strew the rivulet's side," 



but as a matter of fact it is generally in the shady woods, 

 near the foot of some large forest tree, that these dainty 

 little flowers are found. 



MARSH BUCKBEAN 



Menyanthes tnfoliata. Gentian Family 



Rootstock: thick, scaly, marked by the scars of bases of former peti- 

 oles. Leaves: trifoliate, leaflets oblong, entire, obtuse at the apex, nar- 

 rowed to the sessile base. Flowers: .in a raceme borne on a long, 

 scape-like, naked peduncle ; calyx short ; corolla funnel- form, five-cleft, 

 its lobes bearded within. 



This is a perennial swamp herb whose lovely white flow- 

 ers and triple leaves are the glory of many a secluded moun- 



