WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
and trees in moist woods and thickets, where it blos- 
soms from May to July. The slender stalk is rouna 
and grooved, and grows from two to seven inches in 
height! The alternating, broad-oval leaves have a 
short-tipped, blunt point and are heart-shaped with 
a narrow slit at the base where they are either clasping 
or short-stemmed. The surface is smooth and shin- 
ing, and the veinings are parallel. They are yellowish- 
green in colour, becoming stained and rusty with age. 
The tiny, fragrant, waxy-white flower has four spreading 
petal-like parts, and four cream-tipped stamens. 
They are crowded on a short terminal spike, and are 
followed with round, grayish or creamy white red- 
speckled berries, which finally become dark, shining, 
ruby red in colour. There is not the slightest resem- 
blance to the Lily of the Valley of our gardens, and 
this name is thereforé misleading. This rather dainty 
species occurs in scattered or dense’ colonies. from 
Canada to North Carolina, Iowa, and South Dakota. 
HAIRY, TRUE OR TWIN-FLOWERED 
SOLOMON’S SEAL 
Polygondtum biflorum. Lily Family. 
A common and graceful species growing in woods 
and thickets in company with the Wild Spikenard, 
and frequently confused with it. ‘The upper part of the 
slender, leafy, unbranched stalk is often angular and 
curved. It rises from eight inches to three feet in 
height. The toothless, oval, pointed or lance-shaped 
leaves are alternately on the stalk, and are smooth above 
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