54 IDENTIFYING WILD FLOWERS. 



Common Juniper. Diam. T \ in. ; leaves linear, pointed, 



3 in a whorl, f in. long ; stamen flowers in roundish cat- 

 kins ; pistillate roundish, fleshy ; fruit blue-black ; downs ; 

 1-5 ft. (L.) 1095 



Alternate-leaved Water Milfoil. Diam. T x g- in. ; flowers 

 in whorls forming a slender spike ; stem 2-6 ft., much 

 branched ; leaves very finely divided, 4 in a whorl ; sepals 



4 ; petals 4 ; stamens 8 ; ponds ; floating. (R.) 437 



Medium. Greenish and Rose. 



Great Brown-winged Orchis. Diam. f in. ; the largest 

 Orchis ; flowers in a dense spike, each green and purplish, 

 with a rosy, obcordate divided lip, spotted purple ; sepals 

 3 ; petals 3 ; leaves oblong, blunt, glossy, 4 in. ; downs ; 

 1-3 ft., stout, erect. (R.) 1115 



Small. Greenish Mostly. 



Asarabacca. Diam. T 5 g- in. ; length f in. ; flower 

 solitary, dull greenish-purple, bell-shaped, 3-lobed ; sta- 

 mens 12 ; leaves reniform, in pairs ; evergreen ; woods ; 

 creeping. (R.) 1053 



Very Small. Brownish Green. 



Greater or Broad-leaved Plantain. Flowers diam. J in. ; 

 spike of flowers grass-like, about 4-8 in. long and f in. 

 wide ; leaves all radical, 2-9 in., broadly ovate, ribbed ; 

 sepals 4 ; petals 4 ; stamens 4,, rather long ; waysides ; 

 8-20 in. (v.o.) 988 



Blackish, with White and Brown. 



Ribwort Plantain. Flowers diam. J in. ; spike of 

 flowers about 1 in. long and f in. wide ; flowers in an 

 oval grass-like spike with a long 5-ribbed stalk ; leaves 

 3-6 in., narrow, tapering, strongly ribbed ; sepals 4 ; 

 petals 4 ; stamens 4, very long and whitish ; spike 

 black in bud, whiter afterwards ; waysides ; 3-15 in. 

 (v.o.) 990 



