104 IDENTIFYING WILD FLOWERS. 



erect, rather slender, hollow ; moist meadows ; 1-3 ft; 

 (c.) 1120 



Great Sea-stock. Diam. J in. ; sepals 4 ; petals 4, 

 broad, pale dull purple ; stamens 6 ; flowers in racemes 

 1-3 in. ; plant woolly or downy ; leaves linear-oblong ; 

 fruits rough ; shores ; 1-2 ft. (L.) 120 



Welted Thistle or Field Thistle. Diam. nearly f in. ; 

 length | in. ; heads small, clustered ; stem with continu- 

 ous leaf wings, prickly ; leaves lanceolate and spiny ; 

 bracts very slender, erect mostly ; florets all tubular ; 

 waste places ; 1-3 ft. (o.) 654 



Upright Purple Loosestrife. Diam. f in. or more ; 

 flowers whorled in a tall, showy spike ; calyx 12-ribbed ; 

 petals 6 narrow ; stamens 6 long and 6 short ; leaves 

 opposite, lanceolate ; watery places ; 2-4 ft. (c.) 441 



Hispid Marsh Mallow. Diam. f in. ; flowers soli- 

 tary ; sepals 5 ; outer calyx 6-9-cleft ; petals 5, twisted 

 in bud ; stamens many in a central column ; leaves 

 kidney-shaped, acutely 5-lobed ; plant bristly ; fields ; 

 6-18 in. (R.) 236 



Three-lobed Geranium. Diam. in. ; length J in. ; 

 sepals 5 ; petals 5 ; stamens 10 ; stigmas 5 ; flowers purple, 

 streaked with red, in pairs on long red stalks ; stem 

 red and shining ; leaves opposite, shortly-stalked, with 3 

 pointed lobes, 1J in. ; waste places ; 1J ft. (R.A.) 269 



Whorled Mallow. Diam. J in. ; sepals 5, with 3 linear 

 bracts ; petals 5 ; stamens many, forming a tube ; leaves 

 roundish-cordate, bluntly angular ; flowers axillary, clus- 

 tered, sessile ; calyx rough, somewhat inflated ; stem erect ; 

 cornfields ; 2 ft. (R.A.) 231 



Mountain Cranesbill. Diam. J in. ; sepals 5, pointed, 

 distinct ; petals 5, distinct, deeply cut ; stamens 10 ; 

 stigmas 5 ; leaves roundish, deeply 5-7-lobed ; flowers 

 many ; pastures ; 1J-2J ft. (L.) 261 



Small 



Musky Storksbill. Diam. J in. ; flowers rose -purple ; 

 sepals 5, distinct ; petals 5, distinct ; stamens 5 perfect 

 and 5 imperfect ; stigmas 5 ; stem prostrate, hairy ; leaves 



