(A) Shooting Star; American Cowslip (Dodeca- 
theon Aleadia) is a western species that grows in open 
woodlands and on prairies from Pa. to Md. to Manitoba 
and southwards through the Mississippi Valley. 
The leaves are all in a tuft radiating from the base; 
they are oblong, bluntly-pointed and taper into trough¬ 
like stems. From the center of this cluster of leaves 
rises a bare flower stalk, 8 to 20 inches tall, branching 
at the summit into several slender, curving peduncles, 
each supporting a single nodding flower. 
The stamens project from the throat of the flower, 
the five golden anthers forming a conspicuous cone. 
Shooting Star blooms in April and May. 
(B) Moneywort; Myrtle (»Lysimachia Nummularia) 
(European) is a very dainty and beautiful trailing or 
creeping vine, often spreading over large surfaces of 
ground. It is a most beautiful plant for rockeries and 
does well in the house in hanging pots. The leaves, 
that grow oppositely all along the stem, are almost 
round; it is from their shape and the fact that they 
are about the size of the English twopence that they 
originally\ received the name of Moneywort. 
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