NATIVE WILD FLOWEKS 



This plant, and Aralia nudicaulis (L.), or Wild Sarsa- 

 parilla, are held in great repute as wholesome tonics by the 

 old settlers. 



The Ginseng (A. quinquefolia Gray), or Five-leaved 

 Sarsaparilla, is known by its scarlet berries. 



DWARF GINSENG Aralia trifolia (Gray). 



This is a pretty, delicate little plant with three palmately 

 three to five-foliate light-green leaves, which form a leafy 

 involucre to the small delicate umbel of whitish-green 

 flowers which surmounts them. The root is a round tuber, 

 deep below the soil; it is pungent to the taste. 



MONKEY FLOWER Mimulus ringens (L.). 



Our Mimulus. is a sober-suited nun, not gorgeously 

 arrayed in crimson and golden sheen, scarlet or orange, 

 but in a modest, unobtrusive dark violet color, that she may 

 not prove too conspicuous among the herbage and grasses. 

 Her favorite haunt is in damp soil by low-lying streams 

 and open swampy meadows, among moisture-loving herbs, 

 coarse grasses and sedges, and dwarf sheltering bushes. 

 Yet our Mimulus is by no means devoid of beauty, the 

 dark violet-purple of the corollas being unusual among wild; 

 flowers. The blossoms grow from between the axils of the 

 leaves, singly, on rather long footstalks; the upper lip of 

 the tubular corolla is arched, the lower spreading and 

 thrice lobed; the leaves are long, of a dullish green, often, 

 with the angled upright scape, taking a bronzed purple tint. 



MAD-DOG SKULLCAP Bcutellaria lateriflora (L.). 



This pretty light-blue flower grows on the low-lying 

 shores of the Katchewanook Lake and other localities on 

 the banks of the Otonabee and its tributaries. The stem is 



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