PINK WILD FLOWERS 



sickness; but happily it refers to an English species, 

 and not to ours. The Wild Bergamot blossoms 

 from June to September, and is found from Maine 

 and Ontario south to the Gulf States, and west to 

 Minnesota and Colorado. 



SNAKE HEAD. TURTLE HEAD. COD HEAD. 



SHELL-FLOWER. BITTER-HERB 



BALMONY 



Chelbne glabra. Figwort Family. 



This dweller of wet situations takes most of its 

 common names from the fancied resemblance of 

 its flowers to the various subjects which it seems 

 to have suggested. It is a rather common and 

 familiar perennial herb, growing from one to three 

 feet high. The leaves are said to be tonic, and to 

 have been used as a remedy for liver complaints. 

 The leafy, hollow stem is sometimes branched, and 

 is erect, smooth, and square, with two opposite 

 sides grooved. The sharply toothed, lance-shaped 

 leaves taper to a long point, and are narrowed at 

 the base. They are set upon the stalk in alter- 

 nating, opposite pairs, with short stems, and their 

 surface is creased with recurved veins. The large 

 flowers are white, usually tinged with pink, and are 

 closely crowded in a dense terminal cluster. The 

 irregular corolla is broadly tubular and two-lipped. 

 The broad, arched upper lip is creased and notched in 

 the middle. The lower lip is three-lobed at the 

 apex, with the middle lobe smallest. The throat is 



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