WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
leaves and flowering tops are used in medicine; their 
odour is faintly aromatic, and the taste is bitter and 
astringent. Boneset is commonly found from July to 
September, in low, wet places along streams and on the 
edges of swamps and in thickets, from New Bruns- 
wick to Manitoba, Florida, Nebraska, and Texas. 
WHITE SNAKEROOT. WHITE SANICLE. DEER- 
WORT BONESET. INDIAN SANICLE 
Eupatorium urticaefolium. Thistle Family. 
A usually smooth and much-branched species grow- 
ing from one to four feet high, with opposite, slender- 
stemmed leaves. It is a much more graceful and hand- 
some plant than the common Boneset, and is not quite 
so frequently found. The large, thin, broadly oval 
leaves are taper-pointed, coarsely and sharply toothed, 
smooth surfaced, three-nerved and veiny. From ten 
to thirty tiny white florets are loosely grouped into 
small, fringy heads which are closely gathered in a 
terminal and somewhat flat-topped cluster. This plant 
grows from July to November, in rich woods, from 
Canada to Georgia, Nebraska, and the Indian 
Territory. 
WHITE WOOD ASTER 
Aster divaricatus. Thistle Family. 
A dainty, pleasing species of extremely varying 
habit, favouring the shaded portions of well-drained 
woodlands and thickets, but often found along dusty 
roadsides. The slightly zigzagged, brittle, green stalk 
rises from one and a half to two feet high, and branches 
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