BLUE AND PURPLE WILD FLOWERS 



Lupine is found from Maine and Ontario to Minne- 

 sota, Florida and Louisiana. 



PURPLE MEDIC. ALFALFA. LUCERNE. 

 CHILIAN, OR BRAZILIAN CLOVER. 



Medicago sativa. Pea Family. 



This purple-flowered Clover is extensively raised 



in the Western and Southern States where hundreds of 



thousands of tons are annually harvested for fodder. 



It makes the best grade of hay, and has been cultivated 



for at least two thousand years. The smooth, slender, 



upright or ascending stalk is much branched, and grows 



a foot or more high. The three-parted leaves are 



short stemmed, and the leaflets much resemble those of 



the Stone Clover in a general way. They are a little 



broader, however, and the blunt apex is more abrupt 



and ragged toothed. The middle one is offset from 



the others in a little kinked stem. The joints are 



sheathed after the manner of the latter species, though 



slightly modified. The rather pretty flower head is 



composed of numerous violet, purple or bluish florets, 



arranged in several short, dense clusters on slender 



stems. The seed pod is curiously twisted into two or 



three spires. Alfalfa grows wild during the summer, 



in fields and waste places most everywhere from New 



England and Ontario, westward and southward. 



TICKWEED. TICK-TREFOIL 



Desmbdium nudifibrum. Pea Family. 

 Every one of us who has tramped through the 

 fields and woods during the fall has had occasion to 



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