STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
ducks that haunt the borders of marshes and lake shores 
where these shrubs abound. 
The Cornel seems to have a wide geographical range, it 
being found not only in the Eastern States of North 
America, but in the colder parts of Canada, westerly and 
northerly, and extending even to the borders of the Arctic 
Zone. I have before me a specimen of a closely allied 
species from North Cape, Norway, which was gathered by 
a friend among the dark evergreen glades of that far-off 
land. The tiny plant is smaller and has a more pinched 
and starved look than our more vigorous plant, otherwise 
there is no apparent difference. The early frosts of Autumn 
give a pretty purple shade to the surface of the leaves of 
our little forest Dogwood, but they do not wither, remain- 
ing fresh and persistent through the winter beneath the 
snow. 
TWISTED STALK—Streptopus roseus (Mx.). 
This is a graceful plant, with pretty pink-spotted bells, 
“belonging to the Lily family. We find it in the forests as 
‘well as in open grassy thickets. The stalk is divided into 
“two or three branches, bearing on the underside several 
‘pairs of graceful pendent bells on thready twisted foot- 
istalks. The tips of the segments are pointed and slightly 
‘recurved. The berries are red, round and seeded with 
several hard bony nutlets. The flower is scentless. The 
foliage is of a light yellowish green, many nerved, oval and 
pointed. Associated with this there often may be found in 
the deep shade of pine woods, as well as in the rich black 
leaf mould of the hardwood forest, the False Solomon’s 
Seal (Polygonatum biflorum—tL.), which has pale greenish- 
tinged bells and large blue berries. The leaves are of a 
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