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of tin- Eastern Mate-, though the salal 1»ms a more erecl habil of 

 growth, with its sigzag Btem and raceme of white urn-shaped flowers 

 and bhiish-black berries. The red, blaok, and blue huckleberries are 

 also common hove, especially in openings through the forest. 



Present everywhere is the Canada dogwood, Oornus co/nadensis 

 (fig. 3), with its creamy-white heads Burrounded by four bracts which 

 look like petals, [nside of these bracts are the real flowers, which 

 are small. It is difficult to teD whether this plant is more beautiful 

 in Bower or in fruit. The Bruit consist, of a beautiful hunch of brighl 

 red berries which hang on for a long time. No plant receives more 



1 i'. i. Alpine beaul j I 

 Color ot flower, white; height of plant. ! bloom Inly and August. 



Photograph by J. Ii. Flett. 



attention and praise from the touri-t than does this little dogwood, 

 me Localities in the Eas1 it is popularly called "bunchberry." 

 On close examination it-- relationship to the large flowering dogwood 

 can hi- plainly seen. The Canada dogwood is in bloom a second time 

 late in the fall. Mixed with the Little dogwood i~ the pure-white 

 :dpin<- beauty, Clinionia uniflora (fig. 4). This species, with its 

 sin^lr flower of >i\ petals, surpasses in beauty ii- eastern relatives, 

 sous plant i- little known to those traveling through the 

 mountain-.. It belongs to the lily-of-the-valley family, a- do the 

 false ~oli.iiii.il seals which often bloom with it in Jury and August. 



