WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
White Sweet Clover. White Melilot {Melilotus alba). 
Pulse family. June to November. 
An annual or biennial, average height three feet, bearing 
small papilionaceous fragrant flowers in slender racemes; nine 
stamens in group, one separate (diadelphous). Leaflets nar- 
rower than those of ordinary clover. The pleasantly scented 
flowers have figured in domestic medicine, but there is no 
officinal preparation of the drug. The Greek name signifies 
honey-lotus. 
Bugbane. Black Cohosh {Cimicifuga racemosd). Crowfoot 
family. June to August. 
A perennial herb, three to seven feet high, with slender, 
long, showy, spike-like racemes of feathery flowers, appar- 
ently made up entirely of white stamens. The flowers are 
never all in bloom at once and the spike is likely to contain 
buds at the top, flowers in bloom in the middle, and fruit 
below; sepals four or five, rapidly falling; petals four to eight, 
resembling stamens; stamens many, giving the fluffy appear- 
ance. Leaves coarse in texture, two or three times divided; 
leaflets pointed, sharply toothed. Rich woods. Latin cimex, 
bug, and fugere, to drive off. 
GROUP XIII 
Leaves alternate, compound. Flowers in umbel. 
Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia midicaulis). Ginseng family. 
May, June. 
A common perennial herb of the open woods with leafless 
stem under a foot high bearing at the top an umbel of minute 
flower-s; petals (five) bent back, stamens (five) on ovary. 
Alongside rises a somewhat taller slender stalk bearing a leaf 
of three divisions, each with three to five leaflets. The root- 
stalk is aromatic and very long, sometimes over two feet. 
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