A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



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91. Three or more leaves arising from the same point on the 

 stem ; leaves whorled. (Exceptions are two alternate-leaved 

 Lilies, Nos. 95 and 98.) 



Flowers never white (in our species) Lilies no. 93 



Flowers white Cucumber-root no. 92 



92. CUCUMBER-ROOT. MEDEOLA. 



Slender herb with simple, unbranched stem and whorled 

 leaves (see Fig. 92) 4-10 in a whorl, the latter often distant. 

 Leaves of the top-most whorl usually 3-5. Flowers 2-9 in 

 a terminal cluster, white, their stalks of uneven length. Fruit 

 a berry. {Convallariaccac.) 



Cucumber-root. Mcdcola virginiana. Usually less than 

 2 ft. tall. Leaves of the upper whorl 1-2 in. long, about half 

 as wide. Flowers about Yz in. wide. Berry dark purple, a 

 little less than ^ in. in diameter. May. In woods. Nova Scotia 

 to Florida, west to Minnesota and Tennessee. Fig. 92. 



93. LILIES. LILIUM. 



Usually tall herbs with clustered or alternate leaves and 

 showy flowers in terminal clusters, or solitary. Flowers 

 funnel-shaped, or bell-shaped. Petals separate, often re- 

 curved, never white in our species. Fruit a many seeded 

 pod. (Liliaccae.) 



