WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
the Bloodroot. The name is very suggestive and has 
real significance, but in our search to find it, we could 
hardly be expected to roam about pulling up every 
strange flower to see if its root is full of blood. It 
might just as well be called “bloodstem”’ as its leaf and 
flower stems have the same “bleeding” habit when they 
are plucked. Happily, however, many common names, 
such as Bloodroot, Cardinal Flower, Bluebell, or 
Wintergreen, really assist in their identification. And 
so we come upon the Goldthread. Hear the name 
alone and we might search in vain for this plant unless 
we happen to uproot it, but the instant we see the bright 
rootlets, we know why it received its name, and we shall 
not easily forget it. But imagine looking for wind in 
the Wind Flower, or for the wind exclusively where this 
Anemone grows, and for only one Spring Beauty 
when there are dozens of wild flowers equally deserving 
the same title. It is right here that scientific. classi- 
fication demands observance, and this subject is thus 
briefly introduced with the sincere hope that the 
reader will eventually become deeply interested in its 
study. The small, solitary, glossy-white flowers of 
the Goldthread appear from May to August in cool, 
moist, mossy woods and bogs from Maryiand and 
Minnesota to Alaska. The prominent calyx might 
easily be mistaken for petals. The sepals are narrow 
and pointed, white in colour, with a yellowish base, and 
from five to seven in number. These petal-like sepals 
soon fall away. The five or six real. petals are very 
small and inconspicuous and are easily confused with 
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