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roundisli lobes. Fruit, hairy. Stem, 4 feet high. Originally 

 from India. 



10. Common Blue Flax 



Llnum usitatfssimum. — Family, Flax. Color, blue, with a 

 purplish tinge. Leaves, linear, alternate, i inch or so in 

 length. Time, summer. ♦ 



Parts of the blossom in fives, regular and symmetrical. 

 Flowers in terminal corymbs, pretty and delicate. The fibrous 

 part of the plant is used in the manufacture of linen, cordage, 

 sail-cloth, etc. Its seed furnishes linseed-oil. 



It is cultivated in this country, and grows spontaneously in 

 some places. 



"Oh, the goodly flax-flower! 

 It groweth on the hill. 

 And be the breeze awake or sleep, 

 It never standeth still." 



Mary Howitt. 



II. White Clover 

 Trifblium repens. — Fami/j', Pulse. Color, white. 

 The white clover is a finer-leaved, smaller plant than the 



common red c\ov^x (T.pratense). It is sweet-scented. Honey 



made from a field of white clover is delicious. 



Crimson Clover is a handsome, newly introduced species, 

 with large leaves, tall stems, and long spikes of dark red 

 flowers. 



12. Purple Coronilla 



Coronilla varia. — Family; Pulse. Color, pink-purple or 

 white and lilac. Leaves, compound, 7 to 12 pairs of small ob- 

 long leaflets, with i odd, terminal. Flotuers, papilionaceous, 

 grouped in umbels from slender peduncles springing out of 

 the leaf-axils. Pods, long, 3 or 4 times jointed. Time, all 

 summer. 



