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the Jack-in-the-pulpit, and Solomon's seal. These flowers are 

 very nearly contemporaneous and seek the same cool shaded 

 nooks, all often being found within a few feet of one another. 



The red baneberry, A. rtibra, is a somewhat more Northern 

 plant and usually blossoms a week or two earlier. Its cherry-red 

 (occasionally whits) berries on their slender stalks are easily dis- 

 tinguished from the white ones of A. alba, which look strikingly 

 like the china eyes that small children occasionally manage to 

 gouge from their dolls' heads. 



MOUNTAIN HOLLY. 



Nemopanthes fdscicularis. Holly Family. 



A much-branched shrub, with ash-gray bark. Leaves. Alternate, ob- 

 long, smooth, on slender leaf-stalks. Flowers. White, some perfect, 

 others unisexual ; solitary or clustered in the axils of the leaves on long, 

 slender flower-stalks. Calyx. Minute or obsolete. Corolla. Of four or 

 five spreading petals. Stamens. Four or five. Pistil. One. Fruit. 

 Coral-red, berry-like. 



The flowers of this shrub appear in the damp woods of May. 

 Its light red berries on their slender stalks are noticed in late 

 summer when its near relation, the black alder or winterberry 

 is also conspicuous. Its generic name signifies flower with a 

 thread-like stalk. 



WINTERBERRY. BLACK ALDER. 



Ilex verticillata. Holly Family. 



A shrub, common in low grounds. Leaves. Oval or lance-shaped, 

 pointed at apex and base, toothed. Flowers. White ; some perfect, 

 others unisexual ; clustered on very short flower-stalks in the axils of the 

 leaves ; appearing in May or June. Calyx. Minute. Corolla. Of four 

 to six petals. Stamens. Four to six. Pistil. One. Fruit. Coral-red, 

 berry-like. 



The year may draw nearly to its close without our attention 

 being arrested by this shrub. But in September it is well nigh 

 impossible to stroll through the country lanes without pausing 

 to admire the bright red berries clustered so thickly among the 

 leaves of the black alder. The American holly, /. opaca, is 



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