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5. Erytkronium Amerieaimni. Dog's tooth violet. — Smith. 

 Among the earliest of flowers, and is the first comer of the lily 

 family. Leaves pale green, spotted with purplish, and dotted— all 

 from the root. Flowers yellow, one inch long, six sepals, nodding 

 on a scape six or eight inches high. Sometimes called Adder's 

 Tongue. The root is a bulb. A very pretty flower. 



6. Dicentra cucullaria. Dutchman's breeches. — De Candolle. 

 Dielytra Cucullaria — old name. Corydalis Cucullaria — Persoon. 

 "Very early, a beautiful smooth plant with finely cut, long stalked 

 leaves, and a raceme of nodding angular looking flowers. Plant 

 about two inches high, growing from a cluster of tittle-like tubers. 

 Leaf and flower stems growing up separately. 



7. Tkalictrum anemonoides. Rue anemone. — Michaux. An- 

 emone Thalictnoides. — Linneus and Biglow. A lovely little plant 

 only about four or five inches high. Blooming early in May, in 

 somewhat sandy, open, brush land. It grows from a tuberous, 

 thickened and clustered root. There is a cluster of leaves just be- 

 neath the flowers forming a sort of involucre — and a cluster of 

 about four flowers — one or two in full bloom, on filaments one half 

 inch long, iDserted on a common axis with the leaves — forming a 

 simple umbel, white, varying to light pink — an inch in diameter — 

 sepals seven to ten, pistils tipped with a flat stigma. Boot leaves 

 mostly thrice three divided. 



8. Anemone nemorosa. Wind flower. — Linneus. Distin- 

 gusihed by a single white flower, purplish outside, three quarters of 

 an inch in diameter, growing from a cluster of three leaves which are 

 each three divided, forming a sort of involucre. The root leaves 

 appear sometime after the flower is in bloom, similar to the stem 

 leaves on a common foot-stalk. An interesting little plant. 



9 Viola. Violets. — Of the seventy-five species known to the 

 world, twenty-nine are natives of this continent. 



There are representatives in Minnesota of all the sub-divisions, 

 and yet but few of the identical species found elsewhere. In this 

 immediate neighborhood there are six species; in the state several 

 others in addition to those found in Minneapolis. Those here are 



1. Viola enenllata — Aiton. Common blue violet, the leaves 

 are hood-like and the petals bearded. 



2. Viola pedata. — Linneus. Bird-foot violet, grows on prair- 

 ies. Petals not bearded, pale blue varying to white, prominent 

 nose-like stamens, projecting almost even with the disc of the flower. 



3. Viola delpkinifolia. — Nuttall. Lark-spur violet. Leaves 

 similar to No. 2. Petals deep blue, bearded, not spreading like 

 the pedata. Grows in moist places. 



4. Viola klanda. — Wildenow. Sweet white violet. Grows on 

 the edge of marshes and meadows. Mildly sweet scented, petals 

 highly bearded, streaked with purple. Leaf and flower shaped 

 like No. 1 but smaller. 



5. Viola palustris — Linneus. Marsh violet. Grows in marsh- 

 es. About the size of the blanda and quite similar in appear- 

 ance. Flower pale blue ; petals nearly beardless. Sometimes 

 called the mountain violet. 



