HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



friends of the woods. New England to Virginia and Ken- 

 tucky. Often found growing with the preceding. 



Three-leaved Solomon's Seal 

 S. trifblia rises from a slender rootstock, a stem 6 to 18 inches 

 high, bearing, generally, 3 oblong leaves, sessile, and sheathing at 

 base. Flower rather large, with an open, at length reflexed, 6- 

 divided perianth, 6 stamens, 1 ovary, and style. Berries, dark red. 

 In wet, boggy woods from Maine to Pennsylvania, west- 

 ward to Michigan. 



False Lily of the Valley 



Maianthemum canadense.— Family, Lily. Color, white. Perianth 

 of 4 sepals. Stamens, 4. Leaves, 1 to 3, one above the other, 

 on flowering stems, ovate to oblong, pointed at apex, heart-shaped 

 at base, with short, thick petioles, or sessile. Some solitary on 

 longer petioles from the rootstocks. Parallel-veined. Flowers, 

 small, delicate, with a'4-divided perianth, 4 stamens, 1 style, in 

 a terminal spike or cluster, followed in the fall by a bunch of 

 bright-red berries. May and June. 



This small lily of the valley is one of the flowers dear to 

 children, who love to press their little fingers into a bed of 

 the shining leaves, mixed with mosses, looking for the downy, 

 fine blossoms. Height, 4 to 7 inches. Stem often bent. In 

 moist woods from New England to North Carolina and 

 westward. (See illustration, p. 49.) 



Twisted-stalk 



Streptopus amplexifblius. — Family, Lily. (Name means "twist- 

 ed foot or stalk.") Perianth of 6 divisions, bell-shaped, curved 

 backward, all narrow, pointed, greenish white. Stamens, 6, with 

 arrow-shaped anthers on short, flattened filaments. Fruit, a red, 

 many-seeded berry. The flowers, h inch long, grow from the leaf- 

 axils on slender peduncles 1 to 2 inches long, which are abruptly 

 bent or twisted in the middle; hence the name. Stem, a creeping 

 rootstock, from which the branches arise, 2 to 3 feet in height, 

 forking, bearing the nodding flowers near the ends. Leaves, thin, 

 pointed, rounded at base, clasping the stem. May to July. 



Cool, wet woods, northward, and south in the mountains 

 of North Carolina. 



Large-flowered Wake Robin 

 Trillium grandiflbrum. — Family, Lily. Perianth of 3 long and 

 narrow, green sepals and 3 large colored petals, with marked 



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