STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
by no means uncommon in Canada. It is usually found in 
half-cleared woodlands and by waysides, attracting the eye 
by its bright pink flowers and elegantly cut leaves, which 
become bright red in the fall of the year. This pretty 
species is notorious for its rank and disagreeable odor, and 
so it is generally passed by as a weed in spite of its very 
pretty pink blossoms. 
Another small-flowered species, with pale insignificant 
blossoms, is also common as a weed by roadsides and in 
open woods; this is G. pusillwm, smaller Cranesbill. It 
also resembles the British plant, but is of too frequent 
occurrence in remote localities to lead us to suppose it to 
be otherwise than a native production of the soil; we find 
it often in very remote places in our forest clearings and 
road-side wastes. 
CHICKWEED WINTERGREEN—STARFLOWER—T rientalis 
Americana (Pursh). 
(PLATE VI.) 
This pretty starry-flowered little plant is remarkable for 
the occurrence of the number seven in its several parts; it 
was for some time cherished by botanists of the old school 
as the representative of the class Heptandria. 
The calyx is seven-parted; the divisions of the delicate 
white corolla also are seven, and the stamens seven. The 
leaves form a whorl at the upper part of the stem, mostly 
from five to seven or eight, and are narrow, tapering 
at both ends, of a delicate light-green, thin in texture, and 
of a pleasant sub-acid flavor. The star-shaped flowers, few 
in number, on thread-like stalks, rise from the centre of 
the whorl of leaves, which thus forms an involucre to the 
pretty delicate starry flowers. This little plant is fre 
quently found at the roots of trees; it is fond of shade, 
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