WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
The latter is very leafy, slender, and hairy and often 
branches sparingly at the top. It grows from one to 
two feet high from a cluster of roots. The delicate, 
thread-like leaves are nearly smooth, and from three 
to seven are grouped in circles, or occasionally they 
alternate. The margins are slightly turned back- 
ward. The many greenish white flowers are arranged 
in numerous clusters or umbels, and are set on slender 
stems both along the upper stalk and terminally. The 
oblong or egg-shaped parts of the corolla are greenish 
white, and the rounding oval or oblong white hoods 
are half as long as the incurved awl-shaped horn. 
It is found commonly in open woods and dry fields, 
on hills and prairies from Maine to Saskatchewan 
and south to Florida, Mexico and New Mexico, from 
July to September. This plant is used in the 
Southern States, where it is very common, as a 
remedy for snake bites and for relieving the bites 
or stings of venomous insects. 
COMMON DODDER. LOVE-VINE. 
STRANGLE-WEED 
Cuscuta Gronévit. Dodder Family. 
This is the commonest of our Dodders, and is found 
in twisted and tangled masses about herbs and low 
shrubs, during July and August, from Canada to the 
Gulf States. It is a variable species and is known as a 
parasite. Its seeds germinate annually in the soil and 
the plantlet promptly attaches itself to the nearest 
favourable growth which becomes its host. Its roots 
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