CROWFOOT FAMILY 



to make the plant a vision of grace and beauty even 

 before the blossoms appear. When in full bloom 

 the great loose clusters of fluffy white flowers are 

 beautiful to see, and not only in the lowlands are they 

 found, but in the uplands of New England they 

 dominate the roadside. 



The flower panicles are usually of feathery blossoms, 

 exquisite in their white deHcacy, though now and then 

 a group of flowers are dull and greenish. The plant 

 is dioecious or polygamo-dicecious, and when the blos- 

 soms are greenish it means there are more pistillate 

 than staminate flowers in a group. The pistils, which 

 are green, outnumber the stamens, which are white. 

 The blossoms have no petals and the sepals fall early; 

 the stamens with white filaments constitute the 

 greater part of the flower. 



The flowers and stems of Purple Meadow-Rue, 

 Thalidrum purpurdscens have a purplish tinge. The 

 plant is common in northern Ohio and blooms after 

 the Early Meadow-Rue and before the Tall Meadow- 

 Rue. 



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