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The Mountain Laurel crowns the tops of the high hills where the 

 soil is siliceous. 



And now, in closing, perhaps it would not be amiss to tabulate, 

 for more ready reference, the information contained in these pages. 



FLOWERS BLOOMING IN FEBRUARY. 



YELLOW FLOWERS. 



Common Name Technical Name Kind of Soil 



Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale, 



Weber) Lawns and meadows 



Red-seeded Dandelion (Taraxacum erytrosper- 



mum ) Lawns and meadows 



WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS. 



Common Chickweed (Stellaria media) Lawns, pastures and fields 



Tootworth (Dentaria diphylla) Shady, damp woods 



Cut-leaved Tootworth (Dentaria laciniata) Shady, damp woods 



Harbinger of Spring (Erigenia bulbosa) Shady, damp, woody hill- 

 sides 



FLOWERS BLOOMING IN MARCH. 



BLUE OR BLUISH FLOWERS. 



Ground Ivy (Nepeta hederaceae) In shady spots on lawns 



and banks of streams 



Dead Nettle (Lamium amplexicaule) ..Lawns, pastures and old 



fields. 



Sessile Trillium (Trillium sessile) Rich woodland 



Green Trillium (Trillium viride) Rich woodland 



WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS. 



Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) Dry open hillsides and 



woodland 



Purple Cress (Cardamine douglassi) ....Wooded hillsides 



Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) Rich, damp woodland 



Bitter Cress (Cardamine pennsylvan- 



ica Meadows 



YELLOW FLOWERS. 



Celandine Poppy (Stylophorium diphyllum) Shady ravines 



