WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
of us have experienced. The hairy leaf and flower 
stems rise directly from the running roots. They are 
from two to six inches long and are sheathed at the base. 
The wheel-shaped flower has five short-clawed, rounded 
white petals and numerous orange-yellow stamens 
with a green, cone-shaped centre. The five green 
sepals are alternated with an equal number of bracts 
which show between the petals. Later, after the 
petals fall away, the sepals remain closely set to the 
maturing fruit. Several flowers are loosely clustered 
on short foot stems from which, later on, the attrac- 
tive berry droops prettily. The compound leaf has 
three toothed and broad wedge-shaped hairy leaflets 
that overtop the fruit. They form little dark green 
tufts in scattered patches in fields, pastures and along 
woodsides, flowering from April to June, and often 
again during August, from New Brunswick to South 
Dakota, and South to Florida, Louisiana and Arizona. 
WHITE AVENS 
Geum canadénse. Rose Family. 
The slender, branching, angular stem of the com- 
mon White Avens grows about eighteen inches high’ 
in moist, shady places and blossoms from June to 
August. The large, tufted, long-stemmed, basal leaves 
have from three to five unequal divisions or are lobed. 
The upper leaves are long, oval affairs, arranged singly 
or in threes, and are usually stemless. They are all 
roughly textured, and both stem and leaves are coarse 
and hairy. The five-petalled white flower is insig- 
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