Late August and Early September 



opposite aromatic leaves, and clustered, 

 delicate white or lavender-colored flowers 

 of the dittany, one of the Mints. On the 

 hill-side the little corollas of the blue-curls 

 are falling so as to reveal within the calyx 

 the four tiny nutlets, which are a promi- 

 nent characteristic of the same family, 

 while the plant's clammy, balsam -scented 

 leaves offer another means of identification. 



Near the blue-curls we are likely to find 

 the closely spiked, pea-like blossoms and 

 three-divided leaves of the bush-clover, as 

 well as the pink-purple flowers and downy 

 and also clover-like foliage of another of 

 the tick- trefoils. As these two groups of 

 plants have so many points in common 

 that it is somewhat difficult ordinarily to 

 distinguish between them, it is well to re- 

 member that the calyx of a tick- trefoil is 

 usually more or less two-lipped, while that 

 of a bush-clover is divided into five slender 

 and nearly equal lobes. 



Two other members of the Pulse or Pea 



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