White and Greenish 



The Deerberry, Buckberry, or Squaw Huckleberry (K. sta- 

 mineum), common in dry woods and thickets from Maine and 

 Minnesota to the Gulf States, puts forth quantities of small greenish- 

 white, yellow, or purplish-green, open bell-shaped, five-cleft flow- 

 ers, nodding from hair-like pedicels in graceful, leafy-bracted ra- 

 cemes. Both the tips of the stamens and the style protrude like a 

 fringe. No creature, unless hard pressed by hunger, could relish the 

 greenish or yellowish, berries. This is a low-growing, spreading 

 shrub, with firm oval or oblong tapering leaves, dull above, and 

 pale, sometimes even hoary, underneath. 



Creeping Snowberry 



[Chiogenes hispidula) Huckleberry family 



Flowers — Very small, white, few, solitary, nodding on short, curved 

 peduncles from the leaf axils. Calyx 2-bracted, 4-cleft ; 

 corolla a short 4-cleft bell ; 8 short stamens, each anther sac 

 opening by a slit to the middle ; i pistil, the ovary 4-celled. 

 Stem: Creeping along the ground, the slender, leafy, hairy 

 branches 3 to 12 in. long. Leaves : Evergreen, alternate, 2- 

 ranked, oval, very small, dark and glossy above, coated with 

 stiff, rusty hairs underneath, the edges curled. Fruit: A 

 snow-white, round or oval, mealy, aromatic berry ; ripe Au- 

 gust — September. 



Preferred Habitat — Cool bogs; low, moist, mossy woods. 



Flowering Season — May — June. 



Distribution — North Carolina and Michigan northward to the Brit- 

 ish Possessions. 



Allied on the one hand to the cranberry, so often found with 

 it in the cool northern peat bogs, and on the other to the delicious 

 blueberries, this "snow-born" berry, which appears on no dining- 

 table, nevertheless furnishes many a good meal to hungry birds 

 and fagged pedestrians. Both the pretty foliage and the fruit have 

 the refreshing flavor of sweet birch. 



Pyxie; Flowering Moss; Pine-barren Beauty 



{Pyxidanthera barbulata) Diapensia family 



Flowers — Abundant, white, or sometimes pink, about X '"• across, 

 5-parted, solitary, seated at tips of branches. Stem : Pros- 

 trate, creeping, much branched, the main branches often i 

 ft. long, very leafy, growing in mat-like patches. Leaves: 

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