WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 



gripping places. Its favourite haunts are along river 

 banks or moist, damp lanes, and in lowlands about 

 waterways, where it may be found from July to Octo- 

 ber. It ranges from Georgia to Kansas, northward to 

 Manitoba and Nova Scotia. Clematis is a name of 

 Dioscorides, a Greek medical writer, for a climbing 

 plant with long and lithe branches. 



GOLDTHREAD. CANKER-ROOT 



Coptis trifolia. Crowfoot Family. 



There is no general rule that will enable everyday 

 folks to recognize each wild flower by its common name 

 at first sight. It will be found quite as necessary to 

 depend upon the imagination and reasoning powers 

 as the use of the eyes in this respect. It is true that as 

 one becomes better acquainted with various species, he 

 can usually tell by some characteristic or peculiarity 

 to what family an individual belongs, just as we can 

 distinguish the Chinaman by his "pig tail" and slanting 

 eyes, or the African by his woolly hair and chocolate 

 skin; and equally as well he can tell the manner and 

 place in which they chose to live, even as diversified as 

 that of the Esquimaux, Cliff Dweller, or Hottentot. 

 Let us take, for example, the Wind Flower. This 

 name might as well have been applied to the Hepatica 

 or the Spring Beauty, or Dandelion, so far as the wind 

 is concerned. On the other hand, the name Spring 

 Beauty could with equal propriety be applied to the 

 Wind Flower, Hepatica, or a host of other early flowers 

 for that matter. We hear of a flower referred to as 



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