122 BRECK'S BOOK OF FLOWERS. 



Glycine apios, or ground-nut, indigenous and common in rich, 

 moist woods and thickets, produces flowers in axillary, crowded 

 racemes, of a blackish purple, and makes a pleasing addition to 

 the various ornaments of the border. Its roots are strings of 

 oblong cylindric tubers, frequently known by the name of pig, 

 or Indian, potatoes; when roasted or boiled, they are eatable, 

 having a flavor approaching the common potato, and said to 

 have made an ordinary part of the vegetable food of the abo- 

 rigines. The leaves are pinnated, each consisting of from five 

 to seven ovate acuminate leaflets. Stems round, twining ; 

 from six to eight feet high ; flowering in July and August. 



GERANIUM. 



Geranium pratense. It is said that " its flowers partake 

 of a degree of delicacy by which it greatly surpasses in effect 

 its more common blue congener. Its flowers vary much in the 

 portion of color which they display, some being nearly all 

 blue, whilst others are produced completely white." 



Geranium angulatum. Angular-stalked-Crane's bill. This 

 species is a native of Europe, and has been cultivated since 

 1789. A perennial, of easy culture, eighteen inches high, with 

 a profusion of pink flowers in June. 



" The Geranium angulatum, from its numerous flowers, is 

 highly ornamental. It may be appropriately planted among 

 low shrubs, or strong herbaceous plants ; and it will succeed 

 in rather shady places, which renders it oftentimes a desirable 

 plant. Divisions of the roots afford sufficient increase." 



GLAUCIUM. 



Glaucium fulvum. Horned Poppy. It has an unlucky com- 

 mon name, otherwise it would, perhaps, be more generally intro- 

 duced into the garden than it appears to be, as it deserves a 



