. Wild flowers every child should know : arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada . f, colourless groups of fromthree to a dozen or more, these strange, uncanny, waxywhite flowers hold their silent, Quaker-like meetingswith bowed heads, as if awaiting the motion of somewoodland spirit to arouse them. This leafless plant isknown as a parasite because it draws its nourishmentfrom other living roots and decaying vegetable is noticeably cold and clammy to the touch, and isinclined to turn black when plucked or expos
. Wild flowers every child should know : arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada . f, colourless groups of fromthree to a dozen or more, these strange, uncanny, waxywhite flowers hold their silent, Quaker-like meetingswith bowed heads, as if awaiting the motion of somewoodland spirit to arouse them. This leafless plant isknown as a parasite because it draws its nourishmentfrom other living roots and decaying vegetable is noticeably cold and clammy to the touch, and isinclined to turn black when plucked or exposed to thesun. The Indians used the Ice-plant for relievingaffections of the eyes. The white flower stem, whichgrows from four to ten inches high, is thick and smooth,and springs from a ball of matted, brittle rootlets. Thestem is covered with small, scaly white bracts. Therather large, white terminal and nodding, oblong,shell-shaped flower is wax-like, scentless, and sohtary. Jl #^**%K ^mSKSr jft ^ -^ Y / f -^^»*ff^M s f p-^ Mr- wM ^Qi^l ^^^^^^^^^r-^ ^^^^^^1 ..-^i^r /Aiirl -^:^V. ? :^— MEADOW-SWEET. Spiraea salicifolia YARROW. Achillea Millefolium. WILD FLOWERS white and greenish It has from four to six scale-like petals and from twoto four early falling white sepals. The short, thickpistil is surrounded with usually ten stamens. Afterthe flower matures, it becomes erect for the seeds toripen. It is found commonly in dark, rich woods,from June to August, and from one end of the countryto the other, also in Japan. Sometimes the entire plantis tinted with pink. WHITE AZALEA. SWAMP PINK. SWAMPHONEYSUCKLE. CLAMMY AZALEA Rhododendron viscosum. Heath Family. This species closely resembles the Pink x^zalea andgrows from four to eight feet high. It is found only inswamps and low, wet places during June and smaller flowers are deliciously fragrant, far moreso than those of the Pink species. The plant is morehairy, and the tube of corolla is covered with verysticky, brownish
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