. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. 86 ;;â //./), OA' XATIM: 'ERS, its habits, colours and ([iialities seem the same. \N'hen viewing the native species it seems to carry my thoughts hack to childish haunts on the hanks of the clear-flowing Waveney and the flosvcry Suffolk meadows â¢' Where in cliililhoixl I strnyed, And iiliicUed tlio wild Howors that Ining over its ; A more graceful meml)er of the luijiatorium family is the \\'hi IK SxAKK-ROorâ7i«/r7/'<?/'///w a^eratoides^ (L.) ^ which
. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. 86 ;;â //./), OA' XATIM: 'ERS, its habits, colours and ([iialities seem the same. \N'hen viewing the native species it seems to carry my thoughts hack to childish haunts on the hanks of the clear-flowing Waveney and the flosvcry Suffolk meadows â¢' Where in cliililhoixl I strnyed, And iiliicUed tlio wild Howors that Ining over its ; A more graceful meml)er of the luijiatorium family is the \\'hi IK SxAKK-ROorâ7i«/r7/'<?/'///w a^eratoides^ (L.) ^ which is a pretty, elegant, shrubby plant found in rich woods. The white flowers are borne in compound corymbs. The leaves are from two to three inches long, toothed, narrowly pointed, on long stalks and of a bright green, smooth and thin. Our plunt is about three feet high, wide and loosely spieading. The pretty white corymbs of flowers make this an uttraction, seen among the forest herbage; for at the season when it is in bloom most of the flowers have disa].peared from the woods. Not unfreciuently we find in damp woods, but more especially on open marshy ground, the well-known herb Bun i;-hii; 1 - Eupatoi iuni pcrfoUaluin, (L.) This species is easily distinguished from any other by its veiny, hoary, greyish-green leaves, united at the base around the stem, or perfo- liate, the stem of the plant passing through the centre ;)f each pair. The large, closely-set corymbs of flowers are of a greenish- white and want the pretty tassel'ed appearance of the White .Snake-root, E. ai^^eraioidis. 'i'iie scent of this more homely plant is strongly resinous and bitter ; but it is held in great esteem for certain (lualities of a tonic and anti-febrile nature, and forms one of the old remedies for ague and fever. In evidence of the value of the herb Bone-set, Pursh gives a jiracti- cal illustration from his personal experience of the etti<acy of its medicinal virtues. He says : - "T
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