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A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



Flowers white; plant J/^-4 ft. high. Fly-poison 

 no. 123 



Flowers greenish or yellowish ; plant 6-28 in. high 

 Anticlea no. 124 



117. SWAMP PINK. HELONIAS. 



A bog herb with fibrous roots and mostly basal leaves 

 whose margins are not quite parallel. FloA^ers rose-purple, 

 in a terminal stalked raceme. Petals separate. Fruit a deeply 

 3-lobed pod. (Melanthaceae.) 



Swamp Pink. Helonias hullata. Leaves 6-12 in. long, 

 broadest toward the tip, many-veined, often lasting through 

 the winter. Flower cluster 1-3 in. long, elongating in fruit, 

 many flowered. Pod about ^ in. long, its valves papery. 

 April. Bogs, N. J. and N. Y. to No. Car. Fig. 117. 



118. COLIC ROOT. ALETRIS. 



A fibrous-rooted herb of dry or sandy soils. Leaves all 

 basal, their margins not quite parallel, and "^apering towards 

 both ends. Flowers m a long-stalked spike-like raceme, white. 

 Fruit a 3-lobed pod, slieathed by the remains of the flower. 

 (Liliaceae.) 



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