HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



The flowers grow near the upper part of the stem, in the leaf- 

 axils hanging from long, slender peduncles. The stem is sharply 

 4-angled, 2 or 3 feet high, smooth. Leaves, opposite, meeting 

 and clasping the stem, long and narrow or oblong, pointed, 

 toothed. July to September. 



Wet grounds, banks of streams, etc. In all the Eastern 

 States. (See illustration, p. 349-) 



Winged Monkey Flower 



M. alktus. — Color, lilac. Often growing beside the last species 

 is the winged monkey flower, having a sharply angled or winged 

 stem, petioled leaves, and flowers on shorter peduncles. 



In the same delicate shade of lilac and in general habit, 

 the two species resemble each other. 



False Pimpernel 



Itysanthes dubia. — Family, Figwort. Color, light purple. 

 Flower, 2-lipped or "labiate," the upper lip cut into 2 divisions, 

 the lower into 3. Flowers in racemes, terminal, or from the 

 leaf-axils, on long, slender pedicels, heaves, small; numerous, 

 roundish, sessile, some clasping. A plant 6 or 8 inches high, 

 much branched. All summer. 



The name means " mud-flower," and reveals its habitat in 

 wet and muddy places. Common in all our Eastern States. 



Water Speedwell 



Veronica. Ana.gallls-a.qua.tica. Family, Figwort. Color, pale 



blue striped with purple. Calyx, 4-parted. Corolla, 4-parted, 

 spreading, wheel-shaped. Stamens, 2. The delicate flowers grow 

 in spikes from the axils of opposite leaves, thus making the 

 flowers in pairs. Leaves, entire, serrate, acute, narrow, clasping 

 at base. Stem, creeping and rooting along the ground, the tip 

 and flowering branches erect. June to August. 



In wet soil, along brooks and ditches. Massachusetts 

 southward. 



American Brooklime 



V. americkna Color, blue. This differs from the last in 



having leaves with short petioles, oblong, sharply serrate. Flowers, 

 in peduncled racemes borne in nearly all the axils. April to 

 September. 



In wet places, as swamps, from Pennsylvania northward 

 across the continent. 



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