WHITE 



The name elder is probably derived from the Anglo-Saxon 

 aeld a fire and is thought to refer to the former use of the 

 hollow branches in blowing up a fire. 



SPURGE. 



Euphorbia corollata. Spui'ge Family. 



Stem. Two or three feet high. Leaves. Ovate, lance-shaped or linear. 

 Flowers. Clustered within the usually five-lobed, cup-shaped involucre 

 which was formerly considered the flower itself ; the male flowers numerous 

 and lining its base, consisting each of a single stamen; the female flower 

 solitary in the middle of the involucre, consisting of a three-lobed ovary 

 with three styles, each style being two-cleft. Pod. On a slender stalk, 

 smooth. 



In this plant the showy white appendages of the cup-shaped 

 clustered involucres are usually taken for the petals of the flower ; 

 only the botanist suspecting that the minute organs within these 

 involucres really form a cluster of separate flowers of different 

 sexes. While the most northerly range in the Eastern States of 

 this spurge is usually considered to be New York, the botany 

 states that it has been recently naturalized in Massachusetts. It 

 blossoms from July till October. 



PARTRIDGE VINE. 



Mitchella repens. Madder Family. 



Stems. Smooth and trailing. Leaves. Rounded, evergreen, veined 

 with white. Flowers. White, fragrant, in pairs. Calyx. Four-toothed. 

 Corolla. Funnel-form, with four spreading lobes, bearded within. Stamens. 

 Four. Pistil. One, its ovary united with that of its sister flower, its 

 four stigmas linear. 



At all times of the year this little plant faithfully fulfils its 

 mission of adorning that small portion of the earth to which it 

 finds itself rooted. But only the early summer finds the partridge , 

 vine exhaling its delicious fragrance from the delicate sister- 

 blossoms which are its glory. Among the waxy flowers will be 

 found as many of the bright red berries of the previous year as 

 have been left unmolested by the hungry winter birds. This 

 plant is found not only in the moist woods of North America, 



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