90 WILD FLOWERS AND FRUITS 



PEARLWORT (Sagina procumbens). Pink family. 



Low spreading plant with matted linear leaves; 

 flowers very small on stalks longer than leaves; 

 sepals 4-5, petals sometimes wanting. Moist places. 



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

 flowers in cluster, plant climbing or creeping. 



BEARBERRY (Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi). Heath family. 

 Flowers in short raceme-like clusters; corolla urn- 

 shaped; leaves evergreen, thick, broadening at end, 

 with short stalks; fruit red. Rocks and hills. 

 Spring, early summer. 



MOONSEED (Menispermum Canadense). Moonseed fam. 

 A climber; flowers small in open axillary clusters; 

 sepals and petals similar; leaves broad with deli- 

 cate stalks, 3-7 angled or lobed, shield-form, with 

 stalk attached to lower surface. Woods. Early 

 summer. West Quebec, West and South. 



Fig. 48. 



Water- pennywort (Hydrocotyle Americana). 



WATER-PENNYWORT (Hydrocotyle Americana). Parsley 



family. 



Delicate stems, creeping in wet places; flowers 

 small in close clusters (umbels) in axils; leaves 

 kidney-shaped; long-stalked. All summer. 



