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name is not entirely inappropriate. The finely cut leaves look 

 as if badly torn by a heavy wind, which at the same time had 

 broken, and blown into the air, the line bearing these odd shaped 

 pieces of wearing apparel ! 



The Wake-Robin, or Trillium, is now growing rapidly, and will 

 soon open its single, erect bud. Then the hillsides glow with 

 myriads of white blossoms, over which the now forming leaves on 

 elm and maple throw their delicate shadows. These blossoms 



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 Fig. 6. A colony of Bloodroot with its pure white blossoms 



are long persistent, the white ones becoming pinkish with age. 

 You will be interested on determining the different kinds of 

 Trillia, since each locality will furnish more than one species. 

 These of course differ among themselves in habit and color of 

 blossom. 



If now you will go to the neighboring swamp, or find in the 

 woods a low wet place, or on the hillside the opening of a spring, 

 you will be certain to find the huge leaves and twisted spathe of 

 the skunk cabbage. If you bruise the plant you will be better 

 aware of the reason for this name, especially if you have had 

 experience with the odor of the humble, yet independent animal 

 from which it is taken. Within the purple, or green spathe, look 



