CONTENTS
Reading edition
Preface, and Editor’s Note
Flower Forms
Leaf and Root Forms
List of Illustrations
Water-Plantain Family (Alismaceae) Broad-leaved Arrow-head
Arum Family (Araceae) Jack-in-the-Pulpit; Skunk Cabbage
Spiderwort Family (Commelinaceae) Virginia or Common Day-flower
Pickerel-weed Family (Pontederiaceae) Pickerel Weed
Lily Family (Liliaceae) American White Hellebore; Wild Yellow, Meadow, Field or Canada Lily; Red, Wood, Flame or Philadelphia Lily; Yellow Adder’s Tongue or Dog-tooth “Violet”; Yellow Clintonia; Wild Spikenard or False Solomon’s Seal; Hairy, True or Twin-flowered Solomon’s Seal; Early or Dwarf Wake-Robin; Purple Trillium; Ill-scented Wake-Robin or Birth-root; Carrion flower
Amaryllis Family (Amaryllidaceae) Yellow Star-grass
Iris Family (Iridaceae) Larger Blue Flag, Blue Iris or Fleur-de-lis; Blackberry Lily; Pointed Blue-eyed Grass, Eye-bright or Blue Star
Orchis Family (Orchidaceae) Large Yellow Lady’s Slipper, Whippoorwill’s Shoe or Yellow Moccasin Flower; Moccasin Flower or Pink, Venus’ or Stemless Lady’s Slipper; Showy, Gay or Spring Orchis; Large, Early or Purple-fringed Orchis; White-fringed Orchis; Yellow-fringed Orchis; Calopagon or Grass Pink; Arethusa or Indian Pink; Nodding Ladies’ Tresses
Buckwheat Family (Polygonaceae) Common Persicaria, Pink Knotweed or Jointweed or Smartweed
Pokeweed Family (Phytolaccaceae) Pokeweed, Scoke, Pigeon-berry, Ink-berry or Garget
Pink Family (Caryophyllaceae) Common Chickweed; Corn Cockle, Corn Rose, Corn or Red Campion, or Crown-of-the-Field; Starry Campion; Wild Pink or Catchfly; Soapwort, Bouncing Bet or Old Maid’s Pink
Purslane Family (Portulacaceae) Spring Beauty or Claytonia
Water-lily Family (Nymphaeaceae) Large Yellow Pond or Water Lily, Cow Lily or Spatterdock; Sweet-scented White Water or Pond Lily
Crowfoot Family (Ranunculaceae) Common Meadow Buttercup, Tall Crowfoot or Cuckoo Flower; Tall Meadow Rue; Liver-leaf, Hepatica, Liverwort or Squirrel Cup; Wood Anemone or Wind Flower; Virgin’s Bower, Virginia Clematis or Old Man’s Beard; Marsh Marigold, Meadow-gowan or American Cowslip; Gold-thread or Canker-root; Wild Columbine; Black Cohosh, Black Snakeroot or Tall Bugbane; White Bane-berry or Cohosh
Barberry Family (Berberidaceae) May Apple, Hog Apple or Mandrake; Barberry or Pepperidge-bush
Poppy Family (Papaveraceae) Bloodroot; Greater Celandine or Swallow-wort
Fumitory Family (Fumariaceae) Dutchman’s Breeches; Squirrel Corn
Mustard Family (Cruciferae) Shepherd’s Purse; Black Mustard
Pitcher-plant Family (Sarraceniaceae) Pitcher-plant, Side-saddle Flower or Indian Dipper
Sundew Family (Dioseraceae) Round-leaved Sundew or Dew-plant
Saxifrage Family (Saxifragaceae) Early Saxifrage; False Miterwort, Coolwort or Foam Flower; Grass of Parnassus
Witch-hazel Family (Hamamelidaceae) Witch-hazel
Rose Family (Rosaceae) Hardhack or Steeple Bush; Meadow-Sweet or Quaker Lady; Common Hawthorn, White Thorn, Red Haw or Mayflower; Five-finger or Common Cinquefoil; High Bush Blackberry, or Bramble; Purple-flowering or Virginia Raspberry; Wild Roses
Pulse Family (Leguminosae) Wild or American Senna; Wild Indigo, Yellow or Indigo Broom, or Horsefly-Weed; Wild Lupine, Sun Dial or Wild Pea; Common Red, Purple, Meadow or Honeysuckle Clover; White Sweet, Bokhara or Tree Clover; Blue, Tufted or Cow Vetch or Tare; Ground-nut; Wild or Hog Peanut
Wood-sorrel Family (Oxalidaceae) White or True Wood-sorrel or Alleluia; Violet Wood-sorrel
Geranium Family (Geraniaceae) Wild or Spotted Geranium or Crane’s-Bill; Herb Robert, Red Robin or Red Shanks
Milkwort Family (Polygalaceae) Fringed Milkwort or Polygala or Flowering Wintergreen; Common Field or Purple Milkwort
Touch-me-not Family (Balsaminaceae) Jewel-weed, Spotted Touch-me-not or Snap Weed
Buckthorn Family (Rhamnaceae) New Jersey Tea
Mallow Family (Malvaceae) Swamp Rose-mallow or Mallow Rose
St. John’s-wort Family (Hypericaceae) Common St. John’s-wort
Rockrose Family (Cistaceae) Long-branched Frost-weed or Canadian Rockrose
Violet Family (Violaceae) Blue and Purple Violets; Yellow Violets; White Violets
Evening Primrose Family (Onagraceae) Great or Spiked Willow-herb or Fire-weed; Evening Primrose or Night Willow-herb
Ginseng Family (Araliaceae) Spikenard or Indian Root
Parsley Family (Umbelliferae) Wild or Field Parsnip; Wild Carrot or Queen Anne’s Lace
Dogwood Family (Cornaceae) Flowering Dogwood
Heath Family (Ericaceae) Pipsissewa or Prince’s Pine; Indian Pipe, Ice-plant, Ghost flower or Corpse-plant; Pine Sap or False Beech-drops; Wild Honeysuckle, Pink, Purple or Wild Azalea, or Pinxter-flower; American or Great Rhododendron, Great Laurel, or Bay; Mountain or American Laurel or Broad-leaved Kalmia; Trailing Arbutus or Mayflower; Creeping Wintergreen, Checker-berry or Partridge-berry
Primrose Family (Primulaceae) Four-leaved or Whorled Loosestrife; Star-flower; Scarlet Pimpernel, Poor Man’s Weatherglass or Shepherd’s Clock; Shooting Star or American Cowslip
Gentian Family (Gentianaceae) Bitter-bloom or Rose-Pink; Fringed Gentian; Closed or Blind Gentian
Dogbane Family (Apocynaceae) Spreading or Fly-trap Dogbane
Milkweed Family (Asclepiadaceae) Common Milkweed or Silkweed; Butterfly-weed
Convolvulus Family (Convolvulaceae) Hedge or Great Bindweed; Gronovius’ or Common Dodder or Strangle-weed
Polemonium Family (Polemoniaceae) Ground or Moss Pink
Borage Family (Boraginaceae) Forget-me-not; Viper’s Bugloss or Snake-flower
Vervain Family (Verbenaceae) Blue Vervain, Wild Hyssop or Simpler’s Joy
Mint Family (Labiatae) Mad-dog Skullcap or Madweed; Self-heal, Heal-all, Blue Curls or Brunella; Motherwort; Oswego Tea, Bee Balm or Indian’s Plume; Wild Bergamot
Nightshade Family (Solanaceae) Nightshade, Blue Bindweed or Bittersweet; Jamestown Weed, Thorn Apple or Jimson Weed
Figwort Family (Scrophulariaceae) Great Mullein, Velvet or Flannel Plant or Aaron’s Rod; Moth Mullein; Butter-and-eggs or Yellow Toadflax; Blue or Wild Toadflax or Blue Linaria; Hairy Beard-tongue; Snake-head, Turtle-head or Cod-head; Monkey-flower; Common Speedwell, Fluellin or Paul’s Betony; American Brooklime; Culver’s-root; Downy False Foxglove; Large Purple Gerardia; Scarlet Painted Cup or Indian Paint-brush; Wood Betony or Loosewort
Broom-rape Family (Orobanchaceae) Beech-drops
Madder Family (Rubiaceae) Partridge Vine or Squaw-berry; Button-bush or Honey-balls; Bluets, Innocence or Quaker Ladies
Bluebell Family (Campanulaceae) Harebell, Hairbell or Blue Bells of Scotland; Venus’ Looking-glass or Clasping Bellflower
Lobelia Family (Lobeliaceae) Cardinal Flower; Great Lobelia
Composite Family (Compositae) Iron-weed or Flat Top; Joe Pye Weed, Trumpet Weed, or Tall or Purple Boneset or Thoroughwort; Golden-rods; Blue and Purple Asters or Starworts; White Asters or Starworts; Golden Aster; Daisy Fleabane or Sweet Scabious; Robin’s or Robert’s Plantain or Blue Spring Daisy; Pearly or Large-flowered Everlasting or Immortelle, Elecampane or Horseheal; Black-eyed Susan or Yellow or Ox-eye Daisy; Tall or Giant Sunflower; Sneezeweed or Swamp Sunflower; Yarrow or Milfoil; Dog’s or Fetid Camomile or Dog-fennel; Common Daisy, Marguerite, or White Daisy; Tansy or Bitter Buttons; Thistles; Chicory or Succory; Common Dandelion; Tall or Wild Lettuce; Orange or Tawny Hawkweed or Devil’s Paint-brush
Color Key
General Index of Names
FLOWER FORMS
LEAF AND ROOT FORMS