WILD FLOWERS white and greenish 



leaves and flowering tops are used in medicine; their 

 odour is faintly aromatic, and the taste is bitter and 

 astringent. Boneset is commonly found from July to 

 September, in low, wet places along streams and on the 

 edges of swamps and in thickets, from New Bruns- 

 wick to Manitoba, Florida, Nebraska, and Texas. 



WHITE SNAKEROOT. WHITE SANICLE. DEER- 

 WORT BONESET. INDIAN SANICLE 



Eupaforium urticaefolium. Thistle Family. 



A usually smooth and much-branched species grow- 

 ing from one to four feet high, with opposite, slender- 

 stemmed leaves. It is a much more graceful and hand- 

 some plant than the common Boneset, and is not quite 

 so frequently found. The large, thin, broadly oval 

 leaves are taper-pointed, coarsely and sharply toothed, 

 smooth surfaced, three-nerved and veiny. From ten 

 to thirty tiny white florets are loosely grouped into 

 small, fringy heads which are closely gathered in a 

 terminal and somewhat flat-topped cluster. This plant 

 grows from July to November, in rich woods, from 

 Canada to Georgia, Nebraska, and the Indian 



Territory. 



WHITE WOOD ASTER 



Aster divaricatus. Thistle Family. 



A dainty, pleasing species of extremely varying 

 habit, favouring the shaded portions of well-drained 

 woodlands and thickets, but often found along dusty 

 roadsides. The slightly zigzagged, brittle, green stalk 

 rises from one and a half to two feet high, and branches 



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