WILD FLOWERS PINK 
Manitoba, and south to New England and New 
York, and in the mountains to North Carolina. 
VIOLET WOOD SORREL 
Oxalis violacea. Wood Sorrel F amily. 
This delightful species is found much further south- 
ward than the White Wood Sorrel. It has a brown- 
ish, scaly, bulbous root. The dainty flowers are rose 
purple in colour, and several, a dozen or less, are 
clustered on a slender stem or scape. The leaf stems 
rise from four to nine inches, and the strongly 
ribbed, Clover-like leaves grow in little tufts of 
from four to eight. The Violet Wood Sorrel ranges 
from New England to the Rocky Mountains, and 
south to Florida and New Mexico, in rocky, sandy 
woods, during May and June. 
WILD GERANIUM. SPOTTED CRANE’S-BILL. 
ALUM ROOT 
Geranium maculatum., Geranium Family. 
The large, showy, rose purple flowers of the Wild 
Geranium enliven the monotony of low and shaded 
parts of moist, open woods and thickets, from April 
to July.. They are odourless, and their colour varies’ 
greatly, according to the temperature of the season 
and their exposure to sunlight. The flower has five 
well-rounded, wedge-shaped petals. The latter are 
exceedingly delicate in texture, and show five fine, 
transparent lines spreading from the whitish base 
which is slightly fuzzy or bearded. Ten: spreading, 
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