84 WILD FLOWERS AND FRUITS 



45. Leaves (neither opposite, wanting, nor from root only) simple, 

 flowers in raceme, plant upright, herbs under 4 ft. 



WILD LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY (Maianthemum Canadense). 



Lily family. 



Ht. few inches; flowers small with 4-parted peri- 

 anth; stamens 4; leaves 2 or 3, long, pointed, 

 heart-shaped at base, without stalks or with very 

 short ones. Woods. Spring, summer. 



Fig. 43- 



Wild lily-of- the- valley (Maianthemum Canadense.) 



WATER PIMPERNEL (Samolus Valerandi). Primrose 



family. 



Ht. \ i ft. ; flower-stalks long and delicate ; leaves 

 without teeth, inversely egg-shaped or spoon-shaped, 

 those at base clustered. Wet places. Spring, summer. 



PEPPERGRASS (Lepidium Virginicum). Mustard family. 

 Av. ht. i ft. ; a common roadside weed with branches 

 bearing small keeled pods of peppery taste, in a long 

 raceme and a few terminal blossoms ; flowers small ; 

 leaves lance-shaped, those at base inversely egg- 

 shaped. Spring, autumn. 



