. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. I ! 11 if n ^ ^1 f^ 3« //7/.A OA' XATIVK FLOWERS. intensely hitter, and are much used by the old settlers as tonic remedies against weakness in children when brought low by fever and ague: more especially is it used as a wash for sore ulcerated mouths, as thrush in young infants. The Indian women use it for their little ones in rase of sore mouth and sore gums in teething. I once saw the small evergreen leaves of the (Jold 'Thread a])])lied to a very different purpose —
. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. I ! 11 if n ^ ^1 f^ 3« //7/.A OA' XATIVK FLOWERS. intensely hitter, and are much used by the old settlers as tonic remedies against weakness in children when brought low by fever and ague: more especially is it used as a wash for sore ulcerated mouths, as thrush in young infants. The Indian women use it for their little ones in rase of sore mouth and sore gums in teething. I once saw the small evergreen leaves of the (Jold 'Thread a])])lied to a very different purpose —that of trimming evening dresses of clear white muslin, and as the heat of the room had little effect on them they looked fresh and singularly ornamental on the young ladies that had so tastefully arranged the leaves on their simple white dresses. I have noticed the term " CJold-thread " applied lately to one ol the species of Dodder, that singular parasite, but it was by a person apparently unac(]uainted with our elegant little forest evergreen, Coptis irifolia. Bunch Berry—Squaw Berry—Cormis Canadfiisls () This elegant and ai'v: -aive little plant is met with most commonly in beds, beneath the shade of evergreens. Hemlocks and Spruces, it multiplies by its creeping root-stork as well as by the drupe-like berry. Its popular nrnie in the back-woods, is the Scjuaw-berry, and also Bunch-berry. It is a truly lovely little plant—a perfect forest gem. In height our tiny Dogwood rarely exceeds four or six inches ; the stem is leafy, the upper leaves form a whorl round the flowers, which are enclosed by the white corolla-like involucre, which is more conspicuous than the tiny terminal umbel of little flowers with their dark anthers. The flowers are succeeded by small round berries which become brilliantly scarlet by the end of the summer, appearing like a bright red coral ring surrounded by the whorl of dark green, somewhat pointed, veiny leaves. From its love
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