WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
hairy flowering stalk is quite naked excepting for a 
pair of nearly stemless opposite leaves halfway up its 
length. Other leaves are borne singly on long, hairy, 
slender root stems. They are broad-oval, pointed at 
the tip and deeply heart-shaped at the base. They 
have three or five unevenly scalloped or toothed lobes 
and are rather thin with the ribs and veins showing. 
The bewitching little flower has its five white petals 
finely cut and fringed, and immediately suggests the 
form of a tiny, star-like snow or frost crystal. It has 
ten protruding yellow stamens and a little white, bell- 
shaped calyx. The flowers are clustered on short 
stems in an open, terminal, wand-like spike and are 
found during April and May in rich, open woods and 
on moist banks, from Quebec to Minnesota, North 
Carolina and Missouri. 
CAROLINA GRASS OF PARNASSUS 
Parndéssia caroliniana. Saxifrage Family. 
A pretty five-petaled perennial, growing from eight 
to twenty-four inches high, in swamps and low meadows, 
from New Brunswick and Manitoba, south to Virginia, 
Illinois and Iowa. The spreading, broad, oval petals 
are white or creamy white, veined with delicate, pale- 
green lines. Five stamens with large anthers alternate 
with the petals and numerous straw-coloured, imperfect 
stamens are clustered around the green pistil. The 
solitary flower is borne on a long, slender stem rising 
from a loose cluster of basal leaves. Part way up the 
flower-stem is a single clasping leaf. The long, thick- 
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