MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 



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WHITE GERANIUM 



Geranium RiiJiardsoiii. Geranium Family 



Stems : erect with slender branches, one to three feet high. Leaves : deeply 

 five-to-seven-cleft, lobes sharply incised. Flowers : petals entire, hirsute 

 at base ; sepals glandular, pilose. 



This Geranium is almost invariably white, but very occa- 

 sionally it is purple-red. The plant is a handsome one, tall, 

 with rich foliage and fine flowers. 



WHITE CLOVER 



Trifoliiiiii rcpcns. Pea Family 



Perennial, branching at the base, rooting at the nodes. Leaves: long- 

 petioled ; stipules narrow, lanceolate ; leaflets obcordate, denticulate. 

 Flowers: white or pinki.sh, in loose, globose long-peduncled heads; calyx 

 teeth acuminate. Fruit: pods four-seeded. Not indigenous. 



This Common or Honeysuckle Clover is widely distributed. 

 It may be quickly recognized by the fact that the leaves 

 all grow on long stalks directly from the root, whereas the 

 other white species, T. Jiybriditui^ or Alsatian Clover, is much 

 taller and has numerous leaves growing up on its flower- 

 stalks. The latter species is frequently pinkish in hue. 



Clovers have a very close association with our childhood, 

 those happy bygone clays when we plucked out single flowers 

 from the rounded heads and sucked the slender tubes of 

 nectar ; and always the sweet scent of the Clover blossoms 

 recalls to us the well-remembered fields where 



" South winds jostle them. 

 Bumble-bees come. 

 Hover, hesitate, 

 Drink, and are gone." 



