HARPERS GLIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Aquatic or found in wet ditches or in marshes. Used for salad 

 and for garnishing dishes. 



Crinkle-root. Pepper-root. Toothwort 



Dentaria diphylla.. — Family, Mustard. Pod, long and flat. 

 Flolvers, in a terminal corymb. Rootstock, edible, 5 to 10 inches 

 long, tasting like water-cress. Leaves, on the stem and from the 

 root, whorled or opposite, petioled, each divided into 3 coarsely 

 toothed leaflets. May. 



Perennials, found in cool, moist woods in the Xorthern and 

 Middle States. 



D. laciniata. — Color, pale purple or nearly white. Leaves, in 2 

 or 3 whorls, on the stem, 3 in each whorl, long-petioled, each leaf 

 3-parted, into linear or lance-shaped leaflets, which are irregularlv 

 and deeply toothed. Similar root-leaves, or none. April and 

 May, as early as March in the South. (See p. 311 under Purple 

 Group.) 



A short raceme of flowers terminates the unbranched stem. 

 A pretty species, with graceful foliage, found from New 

 England to Minnesota and southward. 



Spring Cress 



Ca.rdam.ine bulbosa. — Family, Mustard. Floivers, in fours, but 

 6 stamens, 2 being shorter than the others. Pod, long, tipped 

 with the slender style, and large stigma, 2-valved, opening with a 

 sudden movement, disclosing a single row of seeds in each cell. 

 Leaves, simple, broad, those at root roundish or heart-shaped, 

 those on stem becoming narrower until they are lance-shaped. 

 All somewhat toothed. 6 to 18 inches high. April to June. 



Our earliest and prettiest bitter cress, with quite large 

 flowers in terminal clusters, much like the candytuft of our 

 gardens. Wet, low grounds. 



C. hirsuta. — This species is hairy, small, with leaves clustered 

 at the root and growing on the stem, either cut or entire. It 

 may be a delicate plant, with leaves almost like ferns, and fine, 

 soft clusters of flowers, or it may grow 2 feet tall, with coarser, 

 larger foliage. It must have wet soil. I have seen it most beau- 

 tiful in the hills, on wet rocks, where perpetual springs trickling 

 down make an environment which the little cress loves. 



Cuckoo Flower 



C. pratensis will scarcely be found away from the wet meadows, 

 and even there it is rare. It is a handsome plant, with white or 



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