HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Boneset 



E. perfoliktum. — Color, white. Leaves, opposite, clasping, often 

 joined at base so as to make the stem appear to pass through them, 

 serrate, much wrinkled. Summer. 



A well-known plant formerly much used as tea for medici- 

 nal purposes by home practitioners. Flowers in large cor- 

 ymbs. 2 to 4 feet high. Low grounds, widely diffused. 



E. <verbena.efblium. — Leaves, large, veiny, ovate or lance-shaped, 

 cut or coarsely toothed near the base. The lower often in threes, 

 upper alternate. 



Near the coast in low or swampy grounds. 

 Upland Boneset 



E. sessilifblium. — About 5 feet high. A smooth, soft plant, 

 with soft, downy compound corymbs of flowers. Leaves, opposite, 

 or 3 in a whorl, tapering from a rounded, broad base to a point; 

 sessile, toothed, very veiny, 3 to 6 inches long. Late summer and 

 fall. 



Among the mountains and in thickets from Massachusetts 

 to Illinois and southward. 



White Snakeroot 



E. urticaefdUam. — Color, white. Leaves, opposite, long- 

 petioled, with sharp teeth, pointed, broad near the base, thin. 

 Flowers, in compound corymbs. Late summer. 



A handsome plant, 2 to 3 feet high, spreading, branching. 

 Its pure white flowers and long-pet ioled, thin leaves mass 

 finely in the woods. Rich, moist woods, not far from the 

 coast. 



E. arom&ticum is similar to the last, with leaves rather thick, on 

 short petioles, flowers in large corymbs. 



In rich woods near the coast, Massachusetts and Con- 

 necticut to Florida. 



Kuhnia 



Kuhnia. eupaioriotdes. — Family, Composite. Color, cream white. 

 Leaves, alternate, entire, or sometimes toothed, lance-shaped to 

 very narrow and long. September. 



A plant with minute down, variable in height and out- 

 line of leaves. Resembling the thoroughworts. Flowers in 

 heads of panicled corymbs. Dry, sandy soil, New Jersey 

 southward and westward to eastern Kansas. 



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