BLUE AND PUR PLE 



flower-Stalks ; composed of both strap-shaped and tubular flowers ; the 

 former (ray-flowers) bluish-purple, the latter (disk-flowers) yellow. 



This is one of the earhest members of the Composite family 

 to make its appearance, that great tribe being usually associated 

 with the late summer months. The flower might easily be taken 

 for a purple aster which had mistaken the season, or for a blue 

 daisy, as one of its common names suggests. 



WILD GERANIUM. WILD CRANESBILL. 



Geramum inaatlattini. Geranium ramily. 



Ste7n. — Erect ; hairy. Leaves. — About five-parted, the divisions lobed 

 and cut. Flowers. — Pale pink-purple ; rather large. Calyx. — Of five se- 

 pals. Corolla. — Of five petals. Stamens. — Ten. Pistil. — With five styles, 

 which split apart at maturity so elastically as to discharge the seeds to some 

 distance. 



In spring and early summer the open woods and shaded 

 roadsides are abundantly brightened with these graceful flowers. 

 They are of peculiar interest because of their close kinship with 

 the species, G. pratense, which first attracted the attention of 

 the German scholar, Sprengel, to the close relations existing 

 between flowers and insects. The beak-like appearance of its 

 fruit gives the plant both its popular and scientific names, for 

 geratiium is from the Greek for crane. The specific title, 

 jnactilatiifn, refers to the somewhat blotched appearance of the 

 older leaves. 



WILD PHLOX. 



Phlox divaricata. Polemonium Family. 



Nine to eighteen inches high. Stems. — Spreading or ascending. Leaves. 

 — Opposite; oblong or lance-oblong. Flowers. — Pale lilac-purple; in a 

 loose, spreading cluster. Calyx. — With five slender teeth. Corolla. — With 

 a five-parted border; salver-shaped; with a long tube. Staviens. — Five; 

 unequally inserted in the tube of the corolla. Pistil. — One, with a three- 

 lobed style. 



We may search for these graceful, delicately tinted flowers in 

 the rocky woods of April and May. 



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