WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
project conspicuously. The leaves are decidedly 
whitish on the under side. This species comes into 
blossom about a month later than the preceding, or 
during May and June, and is inclined to rich woods 
in the cooler portions of its range. The tubers are said 
to be used as a tonic and as a remedy for skin diseases. 
PEPPERGRASS 
Lepidium virginicum. Mustard Family. 
Peppergrass is common everywhere along road- 
sides and in fields from the West Indies and the Gulf 
States northward to Minnesota and Quebec. It is 
known by every schoolboy in the land, who has nibbled 
its peppery buds and seed cases, time and again. The 
plant is somewhat similar to the Shepherd’s Purse, but 
is more branching, and the seed-pods are set closer 
and less sprawling on the stems. The upper part of 
this plant is more leafy, and the colour is possibly a 
paler green. The leaves of the basal rosette are less 
divided and more paddle-shaped with their edges 
nearly all toothed. The four white petals of the minute 
flower are often wanting. The flat, notched, scale- 
like seed-cases are loosely arranged around the ever 
lengthening flower stalk, and they graduate finely into 
‘the few flowers and buds at the tip. 
SHEPHERD’S PURSE 
Capsélla Birsa-pastoris. Mustard Family. 
The Shepherd’s Purse takes its name from the little, 
flat, triangular seed-pods, which are the plant’s most 
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