WILD FLOWERS BLUE AND PURPLE 



share Job's patience, while we picked, scraped and 

 brushed the affectionate, triangular stickers of the 

 Tick-trefoil that were everlastingly stuck to our clothes. 

 It is a certain and easy means of identification, too. 

 A number of species are distributed throughout the 

 country. This one has a slender, naked stem grow- 

 ing direct from the root some two or three feet high, 

 and bearing sparsely scattered, small, purplish, 

 butterfly-shaped flowers, which are succeeded by 

 flat, two or three jointed, deeply lobed pods. They 

 are covered with minute hooked hairs that are directly 

 accountable for their adhering qualities. The stout, 

 shorter leaf stalk bears a terminal cluster of long- 

 stemmed compound leaves, each having three pointed, 

 egg-shaped leaflets with entire margins. They are 

 thin textured, slightly hairy, and on the under side 

 their colouring is lighter. Tickweed is common in dry 

 fields and woods, from Quebec to Minnesota, south 

 to Florida and Louisiana, during July and August. 



TUFTED, COW, OR BLUE VETCH. TINE- 

 GRASS. TARE 



Vicia Cracca. Pea Family. 



The bluish purple flowers of this weak, angular- 

 stemmed, climbing or trailing perennial vine are pro- 

 fusely massed along the borders of thickets and in dry 

 soils during June, July and August, from Newfound- 

 land to New Jersey, and west to Kentucky, Iowa, and 

 Minnesota. The compound leaf has from eighteen 

 to twenty-four small, narrow, lance-shaped leaflets, 



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