GREEN OR GREENISH FLOWERS 
GROUP I 
Shrubs 
Poison Sumach. Dogwood (Rhus Vernix). Cashew 
family. June. 
A tall shrub with leaves pinnately compound, seven to thirteen 
egg-shaped leaflets, not toothed. The little green (polygamous) 
flowers are in open clusters in the axils; each has five petals and 
five stamens. Fruit whitish. Swamps. 
Staghom Sumach {Rhus typhina). Cashew family. 
June. 
A tall shrub or small tree with velvety branches and small 
flowers (similarly formed to above) in close pyramidal clusters 
at the top. The leaves are compound, with eleven to thirty-one 
leaflets, lance-shaped, pointed, toothed, narrow. Fruit with 
crimson hairs. Hillsides. Smooth Sumach (Rhus glabra) is 
similar but with smooth stem, and maximum height of twenty 
feet, and fruit less hairy. Dwarf Sumach (Rhus copallina) has 
fewer, dark-green, toothless leaflets and winged leaf-stalks. 
GROUP II 
Herbs 
Arrow Arum (Peltandra virginica). Arum family. June. 
A water plant with arrow-shaped upright leaves a few inches 
to one foot in length. A spathe, four to eight inches long, closely 
surrounds the spadix which is packed with small green flowers, 
the upper consisting of masses of anthers, the lower, fertile, of 
solitary ovaries, surrounded by rudimentary, scale-like stamens. 
In still water. (Greek name for shield and anther.) 
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