COKN-FLOWER, OE 

 COEN BLUE-BOTTLE. 



Centaurea Cyanus. Nat. Orel., 

 Composites. 



UR present plant forms one of 

 the brilliant trio that gives 

 such splendour of colour to 

 the harvest-field, the golden 

 marigold being another, and 

 the scarlet poppy the third; 

 and nowhere else do we find 

 the three pure primary colours, 

 the blue, the scarlet, and the 

 yellow, in such intensity. 

 Each of the plants we have 

 named carries with it its con- 

 nection with the harvest-field; for 

 one is the corn-marigold, the other 

 is the corn -poppy, or corn-rose, 



while the subject of our present illustration is called in 

 an especial degree the corn-flower. The marigold will at 

 times appear amongst other crops, and all who have seen 

 the railway embankments ablaze with poppies will not 

 need to be told that these, too, sometimes wander from their 

 allegiance to Ceres ; but the blue-bottle will very rarely be 

 found away from the golden grain, and but few corn-fields 

 would fail to yield examples of it. Throughout temperate 

 Europe it is always found in such localities, but in the 



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