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The White Globe Flower is frequently found growing up 

 through the snow. 



RED BANEBERRY 



Actaa rubra. Crowfoot Family 



Stems: one to six feet high from a fascicle of short branching roots. 

 Leaves: ternate, the divisions pinnate, with the lower ultimate leaflets 

 sometimes again compound, ovate, sometimes obscurely three-lobed, 

 toothed. Flowers: in oblong terminal racemes, sometimes divided to- 

 wards the base, loose; petals oblong, obtuse. Fruit: berries red, oval, 

 many-seeded. 



The Red Baneberry is a perennial herb, not a shrub, and 

 grows to the height of six feet, being a very large bushy 

 plant. The foliage is abundant and coarsely veined, and 

 the tiny flowers, which grow in oblong, close-set, terminal 

 racemes, are feathery and delicate in appearance. This 

 plant usually flourishes in the dense forest glades, where the 

 dainty white blossoms and clusters of bright red berries 

 adorning its slender stalks render it both attractive and con- 

 spicuous. 



Actcra rubra forma neglecta, or White Baneberry, is 

 rather difficult to distinguish from the preceding species 

 until the fruit ripens, when its berries will be found to be 

 much larger than those of Actcca rubra, a pure, waxy, china- 

 white tinged with purple at the end, and growing on long 

 slender green pedicels ; whereas those of the Red Baneberry 

 are, as its name denotes, a bright ^scarlet. The leaves of the 

 White Baneberry are more pointed and more deeply cut than 

 those of its sister plant, the white petals are square at the 

 ends, and the flowers grow in long-shaped clusters. This 

 plant is the Actcca eburnea of Rydberg. 



