WILD FLOWERS. WHITE AND GREENISH 
and narrowed bases. They are short-stemmed, and the 
indistinctly sharp-toothed margins are turned back- 
ward. They are borne alternately in small terminal 
clusters at the top of the branching stems. At first the 
leaves are light yellowish green, becoming darker and 
bronzed with age. The small white, bell-like flowers 
are usually solitary and hang nodding from among the 
leaves. They are urn-shaped, minutely five-toothed, 
and are succeeded by a bright red, mealy, and very 
spicy-flavoured fruit. This fruit consists of the seed 
case that is enclosed when ripe by the calyx, which 
thickens and turns fleshy and appears as a globular 
red berry. The berry-like fruit is found in October 
and throughout the winter. The flower season con- 
tinues from June to September, and the plant is found 
from Newfoundland to Manitoba, southward to New 
Jersey, Georgia and Michigan. 
CREEPING SNOWBERRY. MOXIE PLUM 
Chiogenes bispidula. Huckleberry Family. 
In cool, damp woods where the exquisite Twin-flower 
and familiar Clintonia love to dwell, this daintiest of our 
low, trailing plants decorates the mossy hummocks of 
smouldering stumps with its beautiful, evergreen foliage. 
It is a very slendér, hairy stemmed, and branching 
creeper with two rows of very tiny, stiff, rounded or 
pointed oval, dark green alternating leaves. They 
are glossy above and rusty-haired beneath and, on the 
curled edges, are also hairy. The tiny, solitary, white 
flowers spring sparingly from the leaf axils on short; 
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