WILD FLOWERS white and greenish 



preferably in rich lcafmould, in woods and meadows, 

 from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, to Lake 

 Superior and Minnesota, south to South Carolina and 

 Kentucky. 



The Cut-leaved Toothwort or Pepper-root, D. 

 laciniata, is found during April, May and June, in moist 

 or rich woods from Florida and Louisiana northward 

 to Minnesota and Quebec. The rootstock is deeply 

 seated and its jointed appearance has likened it to a 

 beaded necklace. It is edible and has a pungent and 

 peppery taste. The flowers are nearly three-quarters 

 of an inch broad and the petals are white, usually 

 tinted with pink. The upper leaves are three-parted, 

 having the outer parts often divided with two uneven 

 clefts. All the parts are sharply toothed or lobed, 

 and their general shape is narrowly oblong or lanceolate. 

 Three leaves are set on short stems in a whorl, well up 

 on the flower stalk. The similar basal leaves are 

 rarely developed at the time of flowering. The blos- 

 soms are arranged like those of the Crinkleroot. 



ROUND-LEAVED SUNDEW. DEW-PLANT. 

 ROSA-SOLIS. YOUTH-WORT 



Drosera rotundifolia. Sundew Family. 



It is exceedingly interesting to ponder over the 

 unlimited resources of Nature, which enable her to 

 Tise to any emergency. The Audubon Society will tell 

 you that a horrible famine might result if it were not 

 for the birds that hold in check untold hoards of insects. 

 But it is easy for an observer in botany to conjecture 



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