194 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



The fruit, as the name denotes, is a rich blue-black colour 

 and very juicy. It is from this shrub that Elderberry wine 

 is made. 



NORTHERN HELIOTROPE 



Valeriana septentrionalis. Valerian Family 



Stems: erect from creeping rootstocks. Leaves: basal, oblong, entire; 

 stem-leaves petioled, three-to-seven foliolate, the divisions entire. Flow- 

 ers: cymose, paniculate, more or less dimorphous; corolla funnel- form, 

 five-lobed. 



So sweet is the smell of the Northern Heliotrope that few 

 can mistake it. The flowers are very handsome, white 

 tinged with mauve or pink, and grow in big clusters on the 

 top of juicy stalks from eight to eighteen inches high, and 

 in two small axillary clusters a few inches below the termi- 

 nal cyme. The foliage of this plant is handsome, the leaves 

 being strongly veined, glossy, and of a beautiful bright 

 green colour. 



The margins of these leaves are entire, that is, not cut 

 or toothed, and herein lies the difference between this 

 plant and Valeriana sitchensis, or Wild Heliotrope, which 

 can only be readily distinguished from it by the fact that 

 the latter's leaves are coarsely dentate, the flowers of both 

 species being almost identical. A very noticeable feature of 

 the Valerians is their extremely long stamens, and their 

 roots have a very strong and disagreeable odour, which is 

 a curious contrast to the delicious fragrance of the flowers. 



WHITE ASTER 



Aster commutatus. Composite Family 



Stems: bushy, branched. Leaves: rigid, linear, entire, obtuse, sessile, 

 uppermost passing into involucral bracts. Flowers: in densely crowded 

 heads. 



