108 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



Another glance shows you that the last sixty- 

 eight pages describe various members of the 

 Composite Family, which have many small 

 flowers grouped together in close heads which 

 often look like a single flower. Your plant 

 cannot belong here ; indeed, you would hardly 

 need to be told that it did not go with the 

 Goldenrods and Asters. Next to the Compo- 

 sitae come families equally impossible. The 

 Lobelias have irregular flowers ; that is, their 

 petals are of different shapes and sizes in the 

 same flower, instead of all alike, as in your 

 flower. The Bellflowers have a five-parted 

 corolla and moreover the parts are grown to- 

 gether below into a broad tube or urn ; in your 

 flower they are separate. Then follow a long 

 series of families Plantains, Figworts, Mints, 

 Borages, Milkweeds, Gentians very different 

 from one another but all unlike your plant in 

 that they have five-parted corollas with the 

 divisions more or less united. At page 326, in 

 the Pyrola Family, you come for the first time 

 to flowers with separate petals; but the petals 

 are five instead of six. The Parsley Family 

 which comes next has very small flowers usu- 



