WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 



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WATER CRESS (Nasturtium officinale). Mustard family. 

 Water plant; sepals 4, petals 4; leaves pinnate; 

 leaflets 3-11, round or oblong, almost without 

 teeth. Brooks and ditches. 



WHITE SWEET CLOVER. WHITE MELILOT (Melilotus 



alba}. Pulse family. 



Av. ht. 3 ft.; flowers small, papilionaceous, fra- 

 grant, in slender racemes; leaflets 3. Waste 

 grounds. Early summer-autumn. 



Fig. 39- 



White sweet clover (Melilotus alba). 



BLACK SNAKE-ROOT. BLACK COHOSH (Cimicifuga race- 



mosa). Crowfoot family. 



Ht. several ft.; flowers in long racemes; sepals 4 

 or 5; petals 4-8; stamens many; leaves 2-3 limes 

 divided; leaflets pointed, sharply toothed. Rich 

 woods. Summer. 



See also WATER-LEAF (40). 



35. Leaves (neither opposite, wanting, nor from root only) compound 

 or finely dissected, flowers in umbel, plant 1 ft. or under. 



HARBINGER-OF-SPRING (Erigeniabulbosa). Parsley family. 

 Ht. under i ft.; flowers few, small, in compound 

 umbels; 5 petals; leaves 2-4, long-stalked, many 

 narrow leaflets. Limited localities, e.g., Washing- 

 ton. Early spring. 



