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NATURE STUDY 



cHcullata), the Quaker Lady (Houstonia ccerulea), and the 

 Cherry Blossom. 



If it is possible to get the material, the children should 

 know, at least by name, the hepatica, bloodroot, the 

 anemones, and the dogtooth violet. 



The Spring Beauty : This, like all of the other early 

 spring flowers, has nourishment ready to be turned into 



available food, just as soon as 

 a little warm rain furnishes a 

 first cause and means. 



In this case the starch is 

 stored in a small, deep tuber 

 from which comes the root. 



The number and peculiarities 

 of the leaves, the structure of 

 the flowers, and of the flower 

 clusters are easily made out. 

 The stamens ripen before the 

 pistils, so that we do not find 

 the stigma three cleft until the 

 stamens have discharged their 

 pollen. Tliis means, of course, 

 that the ovules must be fertil- 

 ized by pollen from other flow- 

 ers. 



It received its botanical 

 name {Claytonia Virginica) from John Clayton, who 

 established in Virginia the first botanical garden in 

 America. 



To the same family belong portulacca and the pusley, 

 hated by the gardeners because of the trouble that it 

 gives in weeding it out. 



Spring Beauty. 



