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swamp dwelling plant of eastern United States; its white flowers 

 strikingly resemble a turtlebeak in profile. Beardtongue is a 

 genus of attractive flowers, more frequently met with west of 

 the Rocky Mountains than in the East; from the tubular corolla of 

 each nodding flower projects a bearded stamen simulating the 

 tongue -which gives to the plant its common name. Eastern and 

 midwestern species are usually blue or purple in color. A Cali- 

 fornian species known as scarlet bugler bears bright red 

 flowers. Innocence, flowering in moist woods of the central 



Fig. 278. — In the Figwort Family are such common wild flowers as muUen (A), 

 butter and eggs (B) and wood betony (C). 



States, has two-lipped white, pink or blue corollas; the middle of 

 the lower lip forms a sac which encloses the stamens. A western 

 species known as Chinese houses has whorls of flowers with a 

 white or lavender upper lip and a violet lower one. Speedwell 

 or American brooklime inhabits wet locations from coast to 

 coast; its blue or white flowers, often striped with purple, grow in 

 clusters in the axils of the leaves. The false foxgloves, common 

 to eastern United States, have deeply toothed or fern-like leaves 

 and yellow funnel-shaped flowers in axillary clusters. 



Among the brighdy colored wild flowers of early summer few 

 are more conspicuous than Indian paintbrush or painted cup. 



