WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
and now furnishes a medicine for nervous affections. 
It :s a slender, tall, stately, leafy stemmed plant, grow- 
ing from three to eight feet high in shady and rocky 
woods, where it blossoms from June to August. The 
alternating, long-stemmed leaves are thrice compounded 
of thin, smooth, pointed-oblong, and deeply toothed or 
cleft leaflets. The terminal leaflet is often again 
divided. The stamens of the small white flowers are 
exceedingly numerous and give a very soft, downy 
appearance to the slender spike which forms the floral 
arrangement. This perennial herb is found from 
Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin, and south to Georgia 
and Missouri. The Latin name is derived from 
cimex, a bug, and jugere, to drive away. 
COHOSH. WHITE BANEBERRY. HERB- 
CHRISTOPHER. RATTLESNAKE HERB 
Actaéa alba. Crowfoot Family. 
Slip through the thicket that skirts the country 
roadway and into the damp, shaded ravine or hillside 
where the Jack-in-the-Pulpit is capering during May, 
and the chances are, as you make your way through 
the sparse undergrowth, that you will unconsciously 
brush aside the large, soft leaves of the knee-high 
Cohosh. The large, loose, fluffy, oblong, and cylindri- 
cal mass of tiny, fuzzy flowers resemble a glass chimney 
or bottle-cleaner as much as anything. The small 
white flowers have from three to five petal-like sepals, 
that drop as they open, exposing from four to ten tiny; 
narrow, blunt, or claw-tipped petals which soon fall 
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