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Title: Wild flowers and where they grow
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Harris, Amanda Bartlett, 1824- Humphrey, Lizbeth Bullock, b. 1841
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: Boston : D. Lothrop and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, and the larger one of the same genus, which hasthe twisted name of perfoliate, from a worse twist there isabout the setting of the green leaves, which are woundabout the stem, and there transfixed by it in a fashion asdifficult as it is to all appearance needless. There waspipsissiway, or princes pine, with its shining thick leaves,and in June the reddish-white fragrant flowers. We usedto call it •toothache root and ^rheumatism weed — Isuppose from some old womans notion. Then there was thebeautiful sort of first cousin to it, the pyrola (or pear win-tergreen, from the likeness of the leaves to those of ayoung pear-tree), specified as rotundifol(u and which has aspike of such delicious flowers. Their fragrance is finer than THE NOR WA Y PINES. 95 hyacinth, and the hue of the crimpedwaxen cups is creamy as tuberose;and when it is pressed and putaway in a herbarium, it changes tothe richest burnt brown. Besides that, therewas another of thesame tribe, with fewercups, and not quite
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so pretty. There were also five kinds of what we sometimes called groum and some times club moss. When we came to these,things were a good deal mixed. We were greatly 96 WILD FLOWERS. in doubt. One was like cords of chenille : one grew stiffand bristling clear into the water : one was like a Lil-iputian evergreen tree, standing solitary; one was the gen-uine ••festoon ground-pine. of which Christmas garlands aremade : and the fifth was like the green skeleton of it, amere outline. THE MEDEOLA. This was the Indian cucumber-root. We were accustomedto see it in all similar woods, growing up from a bed of lastyears dry oak leaves. After we had learned the name, wedid not rest until we had investigated with reference to thecucumber, and found it even so — a small, white, juicy, cleanand very whole some-looking root, enough like the edible itwas named for, to be wholly satisfactory. The flower is alittle greenish-white lily, with petals curving backward: andit is specially noticeable

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