WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
preferably in rich leafmould, in woods and meadows, 
from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, to Lake 
Superior and Minnesota, south to South Carolina and 
Kentucky. 
The Cut-leaved Toothwort or Pepper-root, D. 
laciniata, is found during April, May and June, in moist 
or rich woods from Florida and Louisiana northward 
to Minnesota and Quebec. The rootstock is deeply 
seated and its jointed appearance has likened it to a 
beaded necklace. It is edible and has a pungent and 
peppery taste. The flowers are nearly three-quarters 
of an inch broad and the petals are white, usually 
tinted with pink. The upper leaves are three-parted, 
having the outer parts often divided with two uneven 
clefts. All the parts are sharply toothed or lobed, 
and their general shape is narrowly oblong or lanceolate. 
Three leaves are set on short stems in a whorl, well up 
on the flower stalk. The similar basal leaves are 
rarely developed at the time of flowering. The blos- 
soms are arranged like those of the Crinkleroot. 
ROUND-LEAVED SUNDEW. DEW-PLANT. 
ROSA-SOLIS. YOUTH-WORT 
Drosera rotundifolia. Sundew Family. 
It is exceedingly interesting to ponder over the 
unlimited resources of Nature, which enable her to 
rise to any emergency. The Audubon Society will tell 
you that a horrible famine might result if it were not 
for the birds that hold in check untold hoards of insects. 
But it is easy for an observer in botany to conjecture 
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