376 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



almost any pine and oak, deep and cool woods, looking in 

 the distance like a bunch of tall fungi. 



These singular parasites have a wide range over the whole 

 United States. 



45. Creeping Snowberry 



Chibgenes SBrpyllifblia. — Family, Heath. Color, vih\te ; 

 berries, white. Leaves, evergreen, pointed, with margins rolled 

 over, ovate, less than \ inch long. Time, May. 



Calyx, 4 -parted; 2 large bractlets underneath. Corolla, 

 deeply 4-divided. Stamens, 8. Flowers, small, nodding in 

 leaf axils on short peduncles. Fruit, a round, white, many- 

 seeded berry. Slender stem and leaves rough, bristly. 



The flowers of this pretty, trailing plant are small and shy, hid- 

 ing in early spring in leafy corners among moss, in peat-bogs of 

 New York and Pennsylvania, in the cool woods of the Adiron- 

 dacks and Alleghanies. In summer it grows more bold, and 

 flashes up from among its dark-green, shining leaves, the round, 

 pure white berries. It is a plant fragrant of birch, belonging 

 with moss, fern, and streamlet, thoroughly wild. 



46. Shooting-Star. American Cowslip 



Dodecatheon Meadia. — Family, Primrose. Color, deep 

 pink or white. Leaves, in a cluster at the root, oblong, or 

 broader at apex than at base. Time, May, June. 



Calyx and corolla, 5-cleft, the divisions of the corolla being 

 long and narrow. Stamens, generally 5, their anthers coming 

 together and forming a cone. Flowers, showy, in an umbel, at 

 the top of a naked scape, surrounded by an involucre of small 

 bracts. 



A handsome plant with range from Pennsylvania southward. 

 Sometimes cultivated. 



47. Star-flower. Chickweed-wintergreen 

 Tri entails Americana.— Family, Primrose. Color, white. 



