WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Wintergreen {Gaultheria procumbens) . Heath family. 
June to September. 
A little shrub, apparently a few inches high, in reality an 
underground stem giving off rising branches a few inches high, 
with evergreen oval leaves, obscurely toothed. The little 
flowers are few, nodding in the axils, with urn-shaped corollas, 
five-toothed. Open woods. Named for Dr. Gaultier. 
Creeping Snowberry ( Chiogenes hispidula) . Heath 
family. May, June. 
A trailing, dainty vine with slender stem a few inches to a 
foot long, and small, evergreen leaves with flowers in their 
axils. Corolla bell-shaped, four-cleft; stamens eight. Fruit a 
round white berry. Bogs, woods. Greek signifies snow-bom. 
GROUP XViri 
Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers not in raceme or spike. 
Shrubs. 
New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus) . Buckthorn 
family. May to July. 
A shrubby plant, not over three feet high, bearing delicate 
flowers in close clusters, the (five) petals with hoods and claws; 
five stamens; style three-cleft. The leaves are egg-shaped, 
pointed, toothed, sometimes heart-shaped at base, short-stalked, 
three-veined. Woodlands. 
Meadow-sweet {Spircea latijolia). Rose family. June 
to August. 
A common shrub of the fields, not over three feet high, bear- 
ing terminal clusters of small flowers, the clusters narrowing at 
the to]o. The flowers are white or pinkish; calyx five-cleft, 
petals five, stamens many, prominent, giving a fuzzy effect. 
The leaves are oval, toothed, with stalks. Meadows, etc. From 
the Greek meaning twisting, the pods twisted in some species 
(Britton and Brown). 
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