WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Canada Violet (Viola canadensis). Violet family. May 
to July. 
A violet a foot or more high. The petals are white, the upper 
ones with violet on the under side. The leaves are heart-shaped. 
Rich woods. 
Cloudberry. Baked-apple Berry (Rubus ChamcBmorus) . 
Rose family. June, July. 
A perennial under a foot high, with two or three leaves and 
flower, one-half to one inch broad, with five inversely egg-shaped 
petals. The leaves are broadly heart-shaped or kidney-shaped, 
lobed and toothed. Bogs from northern New England north- 
ward. Some have regarded this as the " Wine Berry " of the 
Norsemen, but Fernald seems to have shown conclusively that 
this distinction belongs to the Mountain Cranberry {Vaccinium 
vitis-id(sa) . The generic name is derived from the Latin ruber, 
red, the specific name from the Latin morus, mulberry, with the 
Greek prefix which means low. 
Umbrella Leaf (Diphylleia cymosa). Barberry family. 
May, June. 
A perennial with an enormous leaf (one or two feet) growing 
from the base on a long stalk, and two smaller ones on the stem. 
Flowers numerous, in umbellate cluster, two or three inches 
broad; six petals, six sepals, soon falling. Leaf-stalks inserted 
inside the edge of the cleft leaf (peltate). Woods of Penn- 
sylvania and southward. The Greek name signifies a double 
leaf. 
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