STUDIES OP PLANT LIFE 



ducks that haunt the borders of marshes and lake shores 

 where these shrubs abound. 



The Cornel seems to have a wide geographical range, it 

 being found not only in the Eastern States of North 

 America, but in the colder parts of Canada, westerly and 

 northerly, and extending even to the borders of the Arctic 

 Zone. I have before me a specimen of a closely allied 

 species from North Cape, Norway, which was gathered by 

 a friend among the dark evergreen glades of that far-off 

 land. The tiny plant is smaller and has a more pinched 

 and starved look than our more vigorous plant, otherwise 

 there is no apparent difference. The early frosts of Autumn 

 give a pretty purple shade to the surface of the leaves of 

 our little forest Dogwood, but they do not wither, remain- 

 ing fresh and persistent through the winter beneath the 

 snow. 



TWISTED STALK Streptopus roseus (Mx.). 



This is a graceful plant, with pretty pink-spotted bells, 

 belonging to the Lily family. We find it in -the forests as 

 well as in open grassy thickets. The stalk is divided into 

 two or three branches, bearing on the underside several 

 pairs of graceful pendent bells on thready twisted foot- 

 stalks. The tips of the segments are pointed and slightly 

 Tecurved. The berries are red, round and seeded with 

 several hard bony nutlets. The flower is scentless. The 

 foliage is of a light yellowish green, many nerved, oval and 

 pointed. Associated with this there often may be found in 

 the deep shade of pine woods, as well as in the rich black 

 leaf mould of the hardwood forest, the False Solomon's 

 Seal (Polygonatum biflorum L.), which has pale greenish- 

 tinged bells and large blue berries. The leaves are of a 



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