AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
XIV. 
MipsuMMER displays increasing richness of 
colour in the fields, especially previous to the 
entrance of the scythe. Even a grass field has 
its rich and varied tones; but a crop of clover, 
purple or crimson, varied with white Lychnis, 
the Scarlet Poppy, and other plants, with dense 
tufts of grasses waving above them, is a glo- 
rious sight. 
In such a crop there often appear also the 
brilliant blue spikes of Achzum vulgare, Viper's 
Bugloss, which no flowers can exceed in beauty ; 
and they have the merit of lasting long, and 
continuing to open their buds when gathered 
and kept in water. The plant is one of the 
BoRAGINACEZ; it is rough with hairs springing 
from a tubercle as their base; the short lateral 
spikes of flowers are curled in bud like the 
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