WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
gripping places. Its favourite haunts are along river 
banks or moist, damp lanes, and in lowlands about 
waterways, where it may be found from July to Octo- 
ber. It ranges from Georgia to Kansas, northward to 
Manitoba and Nova Scotia. Clematis is a name of 
Dioscorides, a Greek medical writer, for a climbing 
plant with long and lithe branches. 
GOLDTHREAD. CANKER=-ROOT 
Céptis trifolia. Crowfoot Family. 
There is no general rule that will enable everyday 
folks to recognize each wild flower by its common name 
at first signt. It will be found quite as necessary to 
depend upon the imagination and reasoning powers 
as the use of the eyes in this respect. It is true that as 
one becomes better acquainted with various species, he 
can usually tell by some characteristic or peculiarity 
to what family an individual belongs, just as we can 
distinguish the Chinaman by his “ pig tail” and slanting 
eyes, or the African by his woolly hair and chocolate 
skin; and equally as well he can tell the manner and 
place in which they chose to live, even as diversified as 
that of the Esquimaux, Cliff Dweller, or Hottentot. 
Let us take, for example, the Wind Flower. This 
name might as well have been applied to the Hepatica 
or the Spring Beauty, or Dandelion, so far as the wind 
is concerned. On the other hand, the name Spring 
Beauty could with equal propriety be applied to the 
Wind Flower, Hepatica, or a host of other early flowers 
for that matter. We hear of a flower referred to as 
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