WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
Seal, with which it is often found growing. It is easily 
distinguished, however, by the terminal arrange- 
ment of its plumy flowers and red berries, while the 
latter species bears its bell-shaped flowers distributed 
in pairs along the stalk and its berries are black. 
The smooth, leafy, and slightly zigzagged stalk grows 
from one to three feet high, from a rather thick, fleshy 
rootstock. The broad, lance-shaped, and strongly 
ribbed leaves are stemless, or nearly so, and alter. 
nate at the angles of the stalk. ‘The margins are tooth- 
less, but are fringed with fine hairs. The surface, 
particularly beneath, is also hairy. The small, white 
or greenish-white flowers are fragrant, and have six 
spreading, petal-like parts, six pale, yellow-tipped 
stamens, and a thick pistil. These are densely crowded 
in a pyramid-shaped spike at the end of the stalk, which 
is often gracefully curved. The flowers are suc- 
ceeded by the aromatic, purple-specked berries, which 
are at first green, then yellow-white, and finally pale 
red. The plant blossoms from May to July, and is 
found in moist woods and thickets, from Nova Scotia 
to Georgia, and westward to Missouri, Arizona, and 
British Columbia. 
FALSE LILY OF THE VALLEY. TWO-LEAVED 
SOLOMON’S SEAL 
Matanthemum canadénse. Lily Family. 
A common and familiar little . zigzag-stemmed, 
woodland plant, bearing usually two leaves or often 
only one, and found generally about the base of stumps 
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