144 WILD FLOWERS AND FRUITS 



SEA-LAVENDER. MARSH ROSEMARY (Statice Carolin- 



iana). Leadwort family. 



Av. ht. abt. ij ft.; flowerless stem branching; 

 flowers lavender, small, panicled or scattered; 

 petals 5; leaves thick, with stalks, oblong. Salt 

 marshes. Summer and fall. 



18. Leaves not opposite, upright plant, leaves (not from root only) 

 divided or deeply cut, 5 petals. 



PURPLE AVENS (Geum rivale). Rose family. 



Av. ht. 2 ft.; flowers few, large, terminal, purple; 

 petals 5, inversely egg-shaped, notched; stamens 

 many; root-leaves lyrate and pinnate, those of stem 

 few, globed. Wet places. Early summer. 



HIGH MALLOW (Malva sylvestris). Mallow family. 



Max. ht. 3 ft.; stem hairy, branching; calyx ap- 

 parently double, outer part with 3 sepals; petals 5, 

 pinkish, inversely heart-shaped; flowers (i in.) in 

 close axillary clusters; leaves generally $-lobed. 

 Roadsides. Summer. 



19. Same as 18, but flowers not with 5 petals. 



GOAT'S RUE (Tephrosia Virginiana). Pulse family. 

 Max. ht. 2 ft.; upright, leafy stem; flowers papil- 

 ionaceous, large, in terminal clusters (or racemes) ; 

 ''greenish, cream-yellow standard, purplish-rose 

 wings, and curved keel of greenish-yellow tinged 

 with rose" (Blanchan) ; leaves from 17-29 linear- 

 oblong leaflets (Gray). Sandy ground. Early 

 summer. Southern New England, West and 

 South. 



JACOB'S LADDER (Polemonium coeruleum). Polemonium 



family. 



Max. ht. 3 ft.; flowers clustered, terminal; corolla 

 (blue-purple) bell-shaped, 5-lobed; leaves pinnately 

 compound; leaflets without stalks, 921. Swampy 

 ground. Spring, summer. New York and South. 





