NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
This plant, and Aralia nudicaulis (L.), or Wild Sarsa- 
parilla, are held in great repute as wholesome tonics by the 
old settlers. 
The Ginseng (A. quinquefolia—Gray), or Five-leaved 
Sarsaparilla, is known by its scarlet berries. 
DwakFr GINnsENG—Aralia trifolia (Gray). 
This is a pretty, delicate little plant with three palmately 
three to five-foliate light-green leaves, which form a leafy 
involucre to the small delicate umbel of whitish-green 
flowers which surmounts them. The root is a round tuber, 
deep below the soil; it is pungent to the taste. 
Monkey FLOwER—Minulus ringens (1.). 
Our Mimulus is a sober-suited nun, not gorgeously 
arrayed in crimson and golden sheen, scarlet or orange, 
but in a modest, unobtrusive dark violet color, that she may 
not prove too conspicuous among the herbage and grasses. 
Her favorite haunt is in damp soil by low-lying streams 
and open swampy meadows, among moisture-loving herbs, 
coarse grasses and sedges, and dwarf sheltering bushes. 
Yet our Mimulus is by no means devoid of beauty, the 
dark violet-purple of the corollas being unusual among wild- 
flowers. The blossoms grow from between the axils of the 
leaves, singly, on rather long footstalks; the upper lip of 
the tubular corolla is arched, the lower spreading and 
thrice lobed; the leaves are long, of a dullish green, often, 
with the angled upright scape, taking a bronzed purple tint. 
Map-pog SKkuLLcap—Scutellaria lateriflora (1.). 
This pretty light-blue flower grows on the low-lying 
shores of the Katchewanook Lake and other localities on 
the banks of the Otonabee and its tributaries. The stem is 
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