WILD FLOWERS white and greenish 



hairy flowering stalk is quite naked excepting for a 

 pair of nearly stemless opposite leaves halfway up its 

 length. Other leaves are borne singly on long, hairy, 

 slender root stems. They are broad-oval, pointed at 

 the tip and deeply heart-shaped at the base. They 

 have three or five unevenly scalloped or toothed lobes 

 and are rather thin with the ribs and veins showing. 

 The bewitching little flower has its five white petals 

 finely cut and fringed, and immediately suggests the 

 form of a tiny, star-like snow or frost crystal. It has 

 ten protruding yellow stamens and a little white, bell- 

 shaped calyx. The flowers are clustered on short 

 stems in an open, terminal, wand-like spike and are 

 found during April and May in rich, open woods and 

 on moist banks, from Quebec to Minnesota, North 

 Carolina and Missouri. 



CAROLINA GRASS OF PARNASSUS 



Parnassia caroliniana. Saxifrage Family. 



A pretty five-petaled perennial, growing from eight 

 to twenty-four inches high, in swamps and low meadows, 

 from New Brunswick and Manitoba, south to Virginia, 

 Illinois and Iowa. The spreading, broad, oval petals 

 are white or creamy white, veined with delicate, pale- 

 green lines. Five stamens with large anthers alternate 

 with the petals and numerous straw-coloured, imperfect 

 stamens are clustered around the green pistil. The 

 solitary flower is borne on a long, slender stem rising 

 from a loose cluster of basal leaves. Part way up the 

 flower-stem is a single clasping leaf. The long, thicfc- 



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