HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



friends of the woods. New England to Virginia and Ken- 

 tucky. Often found growing with the preceding. 



Three-leaved Solomon's Seal 



S. trifolia rises from a slender rootstock, a stem 6 to 18 inches 



high, bearing, generally, 3 oblong leaves, sessile, and sheathing at 



base. Flower rather large, with an open, at length reflexed, 6- 



divided perianth, 6 stamens, 1 ovary, and style. Berries, dark red. 



In wet, boggy woods from Maine to Pennsylvania, west- 

 ward to Michigan. 



False Lily of the Valley 



Maianthemum ca.na.dmse. — Family, Lily. Color, white. Perianth 

 of 4 sepals. Stamens, 4. Leaves, 1 to 3, one above the other, 

 on flowering stems, ovate to oblong, pointed at apex, heart-shaped 

 at base, with short, thick petioles, or sessile. Some solitary on 

 longer petioles from the rootstocks. Parallel-veined. Flowers, 

 small, delicate, with a" 4-divided perianth, 4 stamens, 1 style, in 

 a terminal spike or cluster, followed in the fall by a bunch of 

 bright-red berries. May and June. 



This small lily of the valley is one of the flowers dear to 

 children, who love to press their little fingers into a bed of 

 the shining leaves, mixed with mosses, looking for the downy, 

 fine blossoms. Height, 4 to 7 inches. Stem often bent. In 

 moist woods from New England to North Carolina and 

 westward. (See illustration, p. 49.) 



Twisted-stalk 



Streptopus ample xif otitis. — Family, Lily. (Name means "twist- 

 ed foot or stalk.") Perianth of 6 divisions, bell-shaped, curved 

 backward, all narrow, pointed, greenish white. Stamens, 6, with 

 arrow-shaped anthers on short, flattened filaments. Fruit, a red, 

 many-seeded berry. The flowers, h inch long, grow from the leaf- 

 axils on slender peduncles 1 to 2 inches long, which are abruptly 

 bent or twisted in the middle; hence the name. Stem, a creeping 

 rootstock, from which the branches arise, 2 to 3 feet in height, 

 forking, bearing the nodding flowers near the ends. Leaves, thin, 

 pointed, rounded at base, clasping the stem. Ma)- to July. 



Cool, wet woods, northward, and south in the mountains 

 of North Carolina. 



Large-flowered Wake Robin 



Trillium grandiflorum. — Family, Lily. Perianth of 3 long and 

 narrow, green sepals and 3 large colored petals, with marked 



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