Found in moist woods in May and June.

A small plant from 5 to 7 inches high, with a strong fibred, 4-angled, and deeply grooved, pale green stalk.

The broad oval leaf, tapering at both ends, has many deeply-marked ribs; it has a smooth surface, and is of a yellowish-green color. The leaves are set close on the stalk, in a whorl-like cluster of 4 or 6; occasionally a second group occurs below this.

The real flowers are small, and many; bunched together in a close, flat cluster, which is surrounded by 4 large, greenish-white, petal-like leaves, giving the semblance of a single large flower, rising, on a small foot-stem, above the leaves.

The seeds of this little plant take the form of a bunch of brilliant sealing-wax-red berries, set in the center of the greenery, and nodding on the stem with their own weight.