130 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



veined. Gray graphically explains all the minor 

 differences in a way which may be easily understood 

 by one to whom botany is only slightly familiar. 

 The catchliy blooms in early summer. 



Field Mouse-ear The field mouse-ear 

 CMckweed. chickweed is one 



Cerasttum urcense. <• ,^ 



oi the commonest 

 weeds which grows by our roadsides 

 in all parts of the country. Prof. 

 Meehan says he found it in Bergen 

 Park, Colorado, at a height of 

 seven thousand feet above sea level. 

 So common is the little gray-white 

 flower that my sketch will be all 

 that is needed for its identifica- 

 tion. It blooms from April to 

 early August. It has an Alpine 

 origin and does not stand the hot 

 ■weather well, but with the return 

 of antumn it resumes "a green 

 moss-like growth which it retains 

 through the winter, ready for the 

 early bloom of spring." Thus 

 Prof. Meehan describes its char- 

 acter. The common name has no significance now, 

 as it originated long ago by a fancied resemblance to 

 a certain species of forget-me-not which used to be 



Field Mouse-ear 

 Uhickweed. 



