BLACK, BLUR AND PURPLE FRUIT 
GROUP II 
Upright herbs. 
Solomon's Seal (Polygondium hiflorum). Lily family. 
A plant with curving stem, average height two feet. Leaves 
oblong to egg-shaped, or lance-shaped, practically without stalks. 
Root-stalk knotted and bearing scars from which the English 
name is derived. Fruit blue berries with bloom, one or two 
from each axil on drooping stalks. Late summer, early autumn. 
Great Solomon's Seal {P. commutatum) sometimes reaches six 
feet, its leaves are partly clasping, and it has more berries in a 
cluster. 
Indian Cucumber-root (Medeola virginiana). Lily family. 
A stem about two feet high bears two whorls of leaves; in the 
lower whorl, five to nine inversely egg-shaped to lance-shaped 
leaves, pointed, without stalks; in the upper whorl three, occa- 
sionally more, egg-shaped. The fruit consists of a few purple 
(or black) berries on red stalks. Seeds one to three. Woods. 
Early autumn. 
Blue Cohosh {Caulophyllum thalictroides) . Barberry 
family. 
A branching herb with maximum height of two and one-half 
feet. The twice-compounded leaves have leaflets somewhat 
wedge-shaped, lobed. Fruit bluish, berry-Hke, in terminal 
clusters, generally in pairs of unequal size. Woods. Summer. 
Yellow Clintonia {CUntonia horealis). Lily family. 
A plant with upright leafless stem under a foot high bearing 
the fruit at the top. The leaves, generally three, spring from 
the base, are large, oblong, or egg-shaped. The fruit consists 
of several blue berries full of seeds, in imibel. Late summer. 
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