WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
GROUP X 
Leaves from root only. Flowers neither with three nor five 
petals, nor violet-shaped. 
Rattlesnake Plantain {Epipactis puhescens). Orchis family. 
August, September. 
A hairy stem, average height a foot, bears small whitish 
flowers in slender spike. One of the three sepals is united with 
two of the petals, the free sepals are egg-shaped; the other petal 
is in form of a sac. Egg-shaped leaves prominently veined. 
Lesser Rattlesnake Plantain {E. repens, var. ophioides) is 
smaller. Its leaf has a white border. 
Ladies' Tresses {Spiranthes cernua). Orchis family. 
September, October. 
A pretty herb, six inches to two feet, the stem (scape) bear- 
ing bracts. Flowers (similar to above) are in a twisted spike. 
Greek for coil, and flower. The leaves are narrow. Meadows, 
etc. The commonest of this genus in this region, 5. gracilis, 
in sandy soil, is more delicate. 
English Plantain {Plantago lanceolata) . Plantain family. 
Early spring to late fall. 
A common weed resembling our more common plantain but 
with narrower leaves and shorter spike. The corolla is salver- 
form, four-lobed, stamens long. 
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis). Poppy family. April, 
May. 
A low perennial with solitary flower an inch broad; petals 
eight to twelve, long, pointed; stamens numerous, sepals two, 
quickly faUing. Leaf large, kidney-shaped, lobed. Root-stalk 
with red juice, whence the name. Rich woods. 
" Bloodroots, whose rolled-up leaves ef you uncurl, 
Each on 'em's cradle to a baby-pearl." — Lowell. 
