WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Spotted Wintergreen (Chimdphila maculata). Heath 
family. June to August. 
This plant is similar to Pipsissewa, on preceding page, but 
the tipper surface of the leaves is variegated with white, and the 
leaves are less distinctly whorled. 
Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium purpureum). Composite 
family. August, September. 
The description and picture of this familiar flower, whose 
generic name honors Eupator Mithridates, will be found under 
Pink IV, page 202. It is mentioned here because its flowers are 
sometimes white. This I have had opportunity to verify in 
the vicinity of Meriden, Connecticut. 
The root of Joe Pye Weed, though not officinal, has been 
deemed valuable for a stimulant and astringent tonic, and for 
gout and rheumatism. 
Culver's-root (Veronica virginica). Figwort family. June 
to September. 
A tall, upright, perennial herb with unbranched stem, some- 
times six or seven feet high, bearing leaves in many whorls and 
at the top minute flowers in showy white spikes, the central 
spike from three to nine inches long, the others shorter. The 
flowers have whitish, tubular, four-lobed corollas, from which 
project two stamens. The leaves are lance-shaped, pointed, 
with teeth. Southwestern New England, West and South. A 
specimen by the roadside in Thomaston, Connecticut, measured 
six feet and had a central spike seven inches long. 
The derivation of the generic name is not estabHshed, but 
presumably it refers to St. Veronica, who wiped the face of 
Jesus on his journey to the Cross, and upon whose handker- 
chief his features were imprinted. 
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