114 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



middle lobe being broader than the lateral ones and the apex 

 curved. The spur is yellowish. 



Corallorhiza striata, or Striped Coral Root, has dark 

 purplish-brown flowers with elliptic petals, an oval lip, and 

 no spur. 



Corallorhiza Mertensiana, or Spurred Coral Root, has 

 numerous reddish-green flowers, usually a toothed lip nar- 

 rowed to a claw and a very marked spur. 



COMMON NETTLE 



Urtica Lyallii. Nettle Family 



A herb with stinging hairs. Leaves: ovate, acute, coarsely serrate. 

 Flowers: in loose, spreading, slender panicles. Fruit: an achene. 



The Common Nettle is too well known to require any 

 description with its panicles of small greenish flowers, 

 coarsely toothed leaves and quantities of stinging hairs. 



WHITE COMANDRA 



Comandra pallida. Sandalwood Family 



Stems: glaucous, slender, simple, very leafy. Leaves: linear, acute, 

 sessile. Flowers: cymes several-flowered, corymbose, clustered at the 

 summit, peduncles short. 



The Comandra is parasitic on the roots of other plants. 

 It has pretty little whitish-green flowers, which grow in 

 clusters and are bulb-shaped at the base, spreading out into 

 five lobes at the top. The leaves are very narrow and grow 

 close to and all the way up the stalk, and the fruit is a nut- 

 like berry, which retains at its tip the upper short part of 

 the calyx. 



Comandra livida, or Swamp Comandra, differs from the 

 foregoing species in that it has wider leaves, each one grow- 

 ing on its own tiny stalk attached to the main stem ; and 



