(A) Star Flowee (Trientalis Americana) is a very 
dainty little plant often called the “ Star Anemone.” 
The perennial rootstalk is long and horizontal and 
throws up a single, smooth, slender stalk from 3 to 9 
inches high; at the top of this stalk is a whorl of from 
five to ten, thin, smooth, veiny light green leaves; they 
are lance-shaped and sharply pointed. During May and 
June a solitary blossom (rarely two) appears above 
the whorl of leaves on a very slender pedicel. The deli¬ 
cate white petals are sharply pointed and range from 
six to eight in number. The Star Flower is found in 
thin woodland from Labrador to Manitoba and south 
to Va., Ill., and Minn. 
(B) Pimpernel; Poor Man’s Weather-glass (Ana- 
gallis arvensis) (European) is a flower readily identi¬ 
fied; in the first place there are very few red flowers to 
be found and no others with tlie shade of red of this 
one, a salmon or coppery-red. The square stem is 
smooth, slender and rather weak, often lying prostrate 
on the ground. It is found in waste sandy places espe¬ 
cially near the coast. 
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