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FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. 



and has hence received a second name, the ground-pine. 

 The flowers are bright yellow, spotted with red; it is 

 therefore, both in foliage and blossom, very unlike the 

 present plant. 



The common bugle was at one time much used as a 

 vulnerary. " It is so singular good/' an old writer tells us, 

 " for all sorts of hurts in the body, that none that know 

 its usefulness will ever be without it. If the virtues of it 

 make you fall in love with it (as they will if you be wise), 

 keep a syrup of it to take inwardly and an ointment and 

 plaister of it to use outwardly always by you." 



The grass figured with the bugle in our illustration is 

 the Festuca elatior, or tall fescue grass, a graceful species 

 commonly to be met with in moist situations. It 

 assumes a considerable variety of form, the spikelets being 

 sometimes arranged in a simple series, as we have them 

 here represented, while at other times the head is much 

 more spreading. It is a perennial, and flowers in the early 

 part of the summer. 



