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tantly and finely toothed. Flowers in a long raceme, small, 

 scarcely % in. across, white. Petals and sepals 2. Fruit cov- 

 ered with minute, hooked, bristly hairs, the stalks recurving. 

 July. Nova Scotia to Georgia and westward. Also in Europe 

 and Asa. Fig. 445. A related species, C. alpina, is scarcely 

 8 in. tall, and grows in cool moist woods. Labrador to 

 Georgia, and westward, mostly in the mountains. See Nos. 

 379, 380, 407, 434. 



446. Leaves wholly without marginal teeth. (Nos. 447-464.) 



Leaves truly opposite, the joints often swollen no. 453 



Leaves in ckisters of 3, or more, or densely crowded 



Juice milky Blooming Spurge no. 447 



Juice not milky 

 Leaves clustered just beneath the flower 



Bracts (simulating petals) 4 Bunch-berry no. 448 



Petals usually 7 Star-flower no. 449 



Leaves on other parts of the stem 



Leaves in 4's ; petals fringed or notched . Campion no. 450 

 Leaves in 12's or i8's ; petals not fringed . Spurry no. 451 



Leaves densely crowded, not over ^ in. long 



Sandwort no. 452 



447. Blooming Spurge. Tithymalopsis corollata. {Euphorbia 

 corollata.) (Euphorbiaceae.) An erect perennial, with milky 

 juice, related to No. 419, the stem often spotted. Lower 

 leaves often spotted. Lower leaves opposite, the upper in 

 clusters of 4 to 6, stalkless, oblong, rounded, but not round 

 at the tip, about i^ in. long. Flowers white, in open loose 

 clusters. In dry places. Ontario to Florida, and westward. 

 June-July, Fig. 447. (See also Nos. 528-530.) 



448. Bunch-berry. Cornus canadensis. {Cornaccac.) A low, 

 almost woody perennial of woods and thickets. Leaves clus- 

 tered just below the flowers, not quite stalkless, oval, pointed 

 both ends, about 2 in. long. Flower apparently solitary and 

 white, from its 4 prominent bracts just beneath the small 

 cluster of tiny greenish flowers. Fruit conspicuous, scarlet, 

 berry-like. June. Newfoundland to Virginia, and westward, 

 mostly in the mountains. Fig. 448. 



