BLUE AND PURPLE WILD FLOWERS 



Lupine is found from Maine and Ontario to Minne- 

 sota, Florida and Louisiana. 



PURPLE MEDIC. ALFALFA. LUCERNE. 

 CHILIAN, OR BRAZILIAN CLOVER. 



Medicago sattva. Pea Family. 



This purple-flowered Clover is extensively raised 

 in the Western and Southern States where hundreds of 

 thousands of tons are annually harvested for fodder. 

 It makes the best grade of hay, and has been cultivated 

 for at least two thousand years. The smooth, slender, 

 upright or ascending stalk is much branched, and grows 

 a foot or more high. The three-parted leaves are 

 short stemmed, and the leaflets much resemble those of 

 the Stone Clover in a general way. They are a little 

 broader, however, and the blunt apex is more abrupt 

 and ragged toothed. The middle one is offset from 

 the others in a little kinked stem. The joints are 

 sheathed after the manner of the latter species, though 

 slightly modified. The rather pretty flower head is 

 composed of numerous violet, purple or bluish florets, 

 arranged in several short, dense clusters on slender 

 stems. The seed pod is curiously twisted into two or 

 three spires. Alfalfa grows wild during the summer, 

 in fields and waste places most everywhere from New 

 England and Ontario, westward and southward. 



TICKWEED. TICK-TREFOIL 



Dcsmbdium nudifiorum. Pea Family. 



Every one of us who has tramped through the 

 fields and woods during the fall has had occasion to 



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