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1 62 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



spicuous flower, yellow ; of floral leaves, red. Leaves, lower 

 ones deeply, irregularly cleft into narrow divisions. Upper 

 and floral, less deeply. Root-leaves, nearly entire, clustered. 

 Time, June. 



This flower is neither scarlet nor a cup. Pulling aside the 

 brilliant leaves, we find hidden among them a small yellow 

 blossom, with a calyx of two divisions, each 3-cleft ; a corolla 

 tubular, 2-lipped, the upper lip long and narrow, enclosing 

 4 stamens, the lower 3-lobed and short. Flowers, in a short 

 spike. 



Often the wet fields are reddened in large patches with this 

 singular plant, which dyes its upper leaves a color to rival the 

 cardinal-flower in intensity. Stem hairy, about i foot high. 



46. American Germander. Wood Sage 



Teucrium CanadensB.— Family, Mint. Coloi; pink, some- 

 times cream-white. 



This is a pretty plant, covered with soft down, 2 or 3 feet high. 

 The square stem and fruit of 4 nutlets proclaim it a mint. The 

 corolla is unique in that there seems to be no upper lip. A broad, 

 concave lip projects below, two little horns or ears lie above, and 

 two more ear-like lobes back of all. Between the last two lobes, 

 standing well out, are the 4 stamens and pistil, two stamens being 

 taller than the others. The flowers grow in terminal spikes, 

 greenish buds above, pink flowers below, and often, lowest of all, 

 scarious, withered corollas, which detract from the beauty of the 

 spike. 



I have found this mint along Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, and 

 on the south, bay shore of Long Island. Its range is extensive. 



47. False Dragon-head 



Physostegia Virginiana.— Family, Mint. Color, light pink, 

 touched with crimson. Leaves, thick, serrate, lance-shaped, 

 sessile, opposite. Time, July, August. 



Calyx, bell-shaped, deeply 5-toothed. Corolla, i inch long, 



