300 Blue to Purple Flowers 



PURPLE SAUSSUREA 



Saussurea densa. Composite Family 



Stems: nearly smooth with a decumbent base. Leaves: thin, oblong, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, sinuate-dentate. Flowers: several in a corymb. 



This plant grows chiefly on stony slopes and in other dry 

 places among the mountains. The dark purple flower heads 

 are quite handsome and grow in a compact terminal corymb. 



WAVY-LEAVED THISTLE 



Carduus undulatus. Composite Family 



Persistently white-tomentose throughout. Stems: stout, leafy. 

 Leaves: lanceolate in outline, acute, sessile, undulate, lobed, the lobes 

 dentate, triangular, very prickly. Flowers: solitary at the ends of the 

 branches. 



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This reddish-purple Thistle grows from one to three feet 

 high and is a* fine handsome plant with large long leaves, 

 whose edges are wavy and triangularly lobed, the lobes being 

 sharply toothed and very prickly. The big flower-heads 

 grow at the ends of the branches and are surrounded by 

 large involucres of prickly bracts. 



Every traveller knows that the Thistle is the national 

 floral emblem of Scotland, and has been ever since that day 

 when a barefoot Danish soldier, stepping inadvertently upon 

 its spines, gave a cry of pain which aroused the sleeping 

 Scottish camp and saved Scotland. The motto which Scots- 

 men affix to this flower is ff Nemo me impnne lacessit }) (No 

 one touches me with impunity), or in the vernacular, "Ye 

 maun't meddle wi' me." And assuredly we are quite con- 

 tent to leave it alone in its prickly glory, only pausing a 

 moment in passing to admire its fine richly coloured flowers. 



