Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 673
e time asthe Mayflower. It is a beautiful little five-petaled flower (botanically speaking, what ap-pear to be petals are really sepals, that is, divi-sions of the calyx, the hepatica having no truepetals) set on a slim, graceful stem. It variesvery much in color (the buds are of a deepertint than… … THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. lobes; the stem, buds, and calyx are coveredwith a gray silky down. The hepatica grows in little separate clumpsof many blossoms each, like violets. It is ascommon as the Mayflower, but you will neverfind it in such quantities. Look for it throughrather open woods and in small…
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