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oblong pointed and heart-shaped at the base, the cream- 

 coloured flowers are funnelform and the berries are egg- 

 shaped. 



WHITE TWISTED-STALK 

 Streptopus amplexifolius. Lily Family 



Rootstock short, stout, horizontal, covered with thick fibrous roots. 

 Stems: glabrous, branching below the middle. Leaves: acuminate at 

 the apex, cordate-clasping at the base, glaucous beneath. Flowers: one 

 to two, greenish-white. Fruit: red oval berry, many-seeded. 



This Twisted-stalk is a large plant with many clasping, 

 pointed leaves growing all the way up on both sides of its 

 long branching stems, with one solitary leaf at the apex. 

 These leaves are handsome, green and glossy on the top, 

 with strongly marked veins, and are covered with a whitish 

 bloom on the underside. Looking at the plant from above 

 it appears to bear no flowers at all, but turn over its stems 

 and you will find beneath each leaf one or two tiny greenish- 

 white bells, hanging on sharply bent thread-like stalks that 

 spring from the axils of the leaves; these flowers in time 

 turn into bright red oval berries. 



The name Twisted-stalk is derived from its abruptly bent 

 flower stems. 



WHITE MOCCASIN FLOWER 



Cypripcdium passcrinum. Orchid Family 



Stems: stout, leafy. Leaves: ovate, acuminate. Flowers: solitary or 

 two ; petals and sepals pale green ; lip dull white, veined, and with bright 

 red spots; anther ovate-triangulate, yellow with red spots. Fruit: 

 capsule drooping. 



This is the small white Lady's Slipper, and its discovery 

 in the mountains is of sufficiently rare occurrence to be 

 quite an event in the history of the day to the ordinary 



