TURTLE-HEAD 



The leafy, hollow stem is sometimes branched and 

 rises about three feet. The sharp-pointed leaves are 

 set in opposite pairs and their under surface shows 

 distinctly many recurved veins. 



Turlle-head. Chelone glabra 



The large turtle-head flowers are white, flushed more 

 or less with pink. The throat is filled with woolly 

 hairs and the woolly stamens look with difficulty out 

 from beneath the upper arch of the slightly gaping 

 lip. The plant at one time belonged to the domestic 

 materia medica, a decoction of its leaves being con- 

 sidered a tonic. 



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