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i to 4 inches long. Stem, erect, leafy, and branching. April to 

 September. 



A delicate plant, 2 feet high or less. It grows by prefer- 

 ence on moist, shaded rocks. If there be fairies among 

 flowers, this is one. New England to the Rocky Mountains. 

 Found 4,500 feet high in North Carolina. 



Common Fumitory 



Fumaria officinalis (name means "smoke," from the smoke- 

 like smell of the roots when pulled out of the ground) . — Family, 

 Fumitory. Color, a. light pink tipped with dark crimson. Of 

 the 4 petals the outer pair is large, erect, joined together, and 

 one of them is spurred. Pod, roundish, containing one seed. 

 Flowers, quite small, in a long, dense spike, short - peduncled. 

 Stems, I to 3 feet long. Leaves, finely dissected, petioled. Summer. 



Near dwellings and neglected places, sometimes on bal- 

 last, in all the Eastern and Gulf States. Not common. 



Cuckoo Flower 



Ca.rda.mine pratensis. — Family, Mustard. Color, white or pink. 

 (See White Flowers, p. 80.) 



Spider Flower 



Ctedme spinosa. — Family, Caper. Color, white or pink. (See 

 White Flowers, p. 81.) 



Bowman's Root. Indian Physic 



Gillenia trifoliata — Family, Rose. Color, pale pink or white. 

 (See White Flowers, p. 86.) 



Queen of the Prairie 



Filipendula rubra* — Family, Rose. Color of petals, deep pink. 

 Sepals and petals, generally 5, sometimes 4. Stamens, numerous. 

 The fragrant flowers are borne, clustered, in a long, compound 

 panicle, on a long peduncle. Leaves, pinnate, with a large, ter- 

 minal leaflet, deeply cut into 7 to 9 lobes, attended by prominent, 

 kidney-shaped stipules. Lateral leaflets sessile. 2 to 8 feet high. 

 June and July. 



A stately plant adorning the meadows and prairies south 

 and west of Pennsylvania, sometimes cultivated in the North- 

 east. Its leaves, when crushed, give forth the odor of sweet 

 birch. 



Hoary Pea. Goat's Rue. Catgut 

 Tephrbsia <virginiana. — Family, Pulse. Color, pale lemon or 

 white, marked with deep pink or purple. More fully analyzed, 



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