WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Water Pimpernel {Sdmolus Valerandi) . Primrose family. 
May to September. 
An upright perennial herb, six inches to a foot high, bearing 
Httle flowers (somewhat bell-shaped) in open raceme, with long 
and delicate flower-stalks. The persistent calyx is five-lobed; 
corolla five-lobed, stamens five. The leaves are without teeth, 
inversely egg-shaped or spoon-shaped, those at the base clus- 
tered. Wet places. 
Shepherd's Purse {Capsella hursa-pastoris) . Mustard 
family. April to September. 
A common annual weed with average height of a foot. The 
racemes bear minute flowers with four petals and fiat, triangular 
pods. The leaves at the base are clustered, deeply toothed, 
those of the stem pointed, without stalks. Everywhere. Cap- 
sella means a little box. 
Poke. Garget {Phytolacca decandra). Pokeweed family. 
June to September. 
A noticeable perennial weed growing very large with stout, 
branching, red or purple stem, with raceme at the end, or oppo- 
site the leaves; the calyx white, with five rounded petal-like 
sepals; no petals. There are often tiny bracts on the flower- 
stalks. The leaves are large, pointed, sometimes a foot long. 
Low ground. The Greek for plant and the French for lake 
seem to have joined forces to denote the juice of the fruit. 
Devil's Bit {ChamcsUriuni Ititeum). Lily family. May 
to July. 
An upright herb sometimes two and one-half feet high, with 
leafy stem, ending in a long spike of small flowers. The peri- 
anth has six divisions, the staminate and pistillate flowers on 
different plants. The leaves are inversely lance-shaped, without 
stalks, those at the base somewhat spoon-shaped. Moist 
ground. Western Massachusetts, West and South. The 
generic name, from the Greek, signifies a low lily. 
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