WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Goldthread (Coptis triJoUa). Crowfoot family. May to 
August. 
A little perennial with yellow, thread-like, hitter root-stalks. The 
plant is tufted and its delicate stems, a few inches high, bear 
solitary flowers (one-half inch broad) with five to seven petal- 
Hke sepals and five to six inconspicuous, club-shaped petals. 
The leaves have three shiny and sharply toothed leaflets. The 
fruit consists of several follicles with beaks, on stalks (stipes). 
Bogs and damp woods. The generic name is from the Greek 
for cut, referring to the leaves. 
Buckbean (Menyanthes trifoUata) . Gentian family. May 
to July. 
A perennial rising from water, a foot high or under, bearing 
flowers one-half inch long, white or with reddish tinge; corolla 
funnel-shaped, bearded, five-cleft. Leaves of three leaflets on 
long stems. Bogs. Generic name from Greek for month and 
flower, perhaps since it flowers for about this period (Gray). 
Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogaluni umhellatum). Lily 
family. May, June. 
A stem (about one foot) rises from a bulb and bears a cluster 
of flowers on long stalks, each with a narrow bract; perianth 
divisions six, one-half to three-fourths inch long, white with 
green streak outside. The leaves are linear. Fields, in some 
places growing very abundantly as in the photograph lining 
the cover, but not common in New England. Massachusetts, 
South, and West. Generic name signifies bird's milk. 
Wild Garlic {Allium canadense). Lily family. May, June. 
A slender stem (scape) perhaps one foot high rises from a 
bulb and bears an umbel of white or pinkish six-divided flowers, 
one-fourth inch long, the place of the flowers often taken by 
egg-shaped bulbs. Leaves long and narrow. Wild Leek {A. 
tricoccum) is similar but shorter and with broader leaves. 
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