WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 



The latter is very leafy, slender, and hairy and often 

 branches sparingly at the top. It grows from one to 

 two feet high from a cluster of roots. The delicate, 

 thread-like leaves are nearly smooth, and from three 

 to seven are grouped in circles, or occasionally they 

 alternate. The margins are slightly turned back- 

 ward. The many greenish white flowers are arranged 

 in numerous clusters or umbels, and are set on slender 

 stems both along the upper stalk and terminally. The 

 oblong or egg-shaped parts of the corolla are greenish 

 white, and the rounding oval or oblong white hoods 

 are half as long as the incurved awl-shaped horn. 

 It is found commonly in open woods and dry fields, 

 on hills and prairies from Maine to Saskatchewan 

 and south to Florida, Mexico and New Mexico, from 

 July to September. This plant is used in the 

 Southern States, where it is very common, as a 

 remedy for snake bites and for relieving the bites 

 or stings of venomous insects. 



COMMON DODDER. LOVE-VINE. 

 STRANGLE-WEED 



Cuscuta Gronovii. Dodder Family. 



This is the commonest of our Dodders, and is found 

 in twisted and tangled masses about herbs and low 

 shrubs, during July and August, from Canada to the 

 Gulf States. It is a variable species and is known as a 

 parasite. Its seeds germinate annually in the soil and 

 the plantlet promptly attaches itself to the nearest 

 favourable growth which becomes its host. Its roots 



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