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a tiny cup to hold the tubular corolla, with its 4 spreading lobes 

 barely § inch across. Stamens, 4. Style, 1. Leaves, small, blunt[ 

 wide at apex, narrowing to base, opposite, entire. April to July.' 

 Delicate flowers of spring, 2 to 5 inches high, growing in 

 bunches from slender creeping stems or rootstocks. The 

 pale blue corolla, with its bright eye, dots many meadows 

 with tiny stars. Two pretty, common names are Quaker- 

 lady, Quaker-bonnets. Moist or dry fields and meadows 

 along the coast and westward. Some pastures are seen 

 thickly covered with these quaint little flowers, giving them 

 a pale, bluish-white tint. 



Clustered Bluets 



Oldenlandia uniflbra — Family, Madder. Color, white. Corol- 

 la, wheel - shaped, with 4 lobes shorter than the calyx. Calyx, 

 4-lobed. Stamens, 4. Style, often none, but 2 sessile stigmas. 

 Parts of the flower sometimes in fives. Leaves, opposite, oblong 

 or ovate, sessile, with stipules united to the petioles. 



Annual, with smooth, branched stem less than a foot 

 high, with many flowers clustered in the leaf-axils. Near 

 the coast in wet ground from New York to Florida and 

 westward. 



Twin-flower 



Linnaea borealis (named from Linnaeus). — Family, Honey- 

 suckle. Color, whitish, tinged with deep crimson or purple (see 

 Pink Flowers, p. 292). 



Thoroughwort 



Eupatbriam leucolepis.— Family, Composite. Color, white. 

 Flowers, in heads, about 5, making a grayish corymb, with bracts. 

 Pappus, hair-like bristles standing in a single row. Leaves, oppo- 

 site, sessile, rough, long, narrow, finely serrate. Late summer. 



Common in sandy bogs and marshes from Long Island 

 southward. A rough, coarse, uninteresting plant. 



Hyssop-leaved Thoroughwort 



E. hyssopifblium Color, dirty white. Leaves, narrow, long, 



crowded and bunched at intervals along the stem, almost whorled 

 in appearance. August and September. 



A common, plebeian plant with the typical flowers in 

 close, flat heads. Growing in sandy, sterile soil on Long 

 Island southward to Virginia and Kentucky. Height, 1 to 

 2 feet. The flower has neither beauty of color nor fra- 

 grance. (See illustration, p. 131.) 



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