314 BLUE AND PURPLE 



BEACH PEA: Seaside, Sea, or Everlasting Pea. 



Ldthyrus maritimus. 

 Pulse Family. May — Aug. 



Found chiefly near seashores from New Jer- 

 sey and Oregon to the Arctic Sea; also shores 

 of Great Lakes. 

 Flowers — Purple, about 1 inch long or less, 5-12 

 in short clusters on stalk springing 

 from the leaf angles. 

 Leaves — Compound, consisting of 6—10 leaflets. 

 A pair of arrowhead-shaped leaflets 

 are borne at the base of the compound 

 leaves. Plant stem stout, reclining, 1-2 

 feet long. 



COMMON SPEEDWELL: Fluellin: Paul's Be- 

 tony: Ground-hele. Veronica officinalis. 



Figwort Family. May — Aug. 



A low growing plant, with downy, prostrate 

 stem 3-10 inches long, found in dry fields, 

 open woods. Newfoundland to Ontario, Mich- 

 igan, and southward. 

 Flowers — Small, light lavender in color, with 

 darker lines, 4 unequal divisions, borne 

 in slender spikes from the leaf angles, 

 held erect from the hairy, prostrate 

 stem. 

 Leaves — Oval, toothed, rounded at the tip, taper- 

 ing at the base into a short stem. 



