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NATUKE STUDY 



Bloodroot ; 



Secure, if you can, the whole plant, show- 

 ing thg thick root stock with this 

 year's plant, and the bud for the 

 next. Particularly beautiful is the 

 development of the leaf, which is 

 rolled round the flower bud. The 

 calyx, made up of two sepals, 

 soon drops off. 



The reason for its popular name 

 is very evident to one who handles 

 any part of the plant. 



To the same family belong also 

 the poppies. 



Qi-^^^'" 



Bloodroot. 



Dogtooth Violet; 



This is not a rela- 

 tive of any of the vio- 

 lets, but belongs to the 

 Lilies. The flowers are built 

 up on the plan of three, the 

 leaves are parallel veined. 

 Therefore it belongs to the 

 one-seed-leaved plants, such 

 as grass, corn, wheat, etc., 

 which the children have already studied. 



The plants themselves, with their cu- 

 riously spotted leaves, are very pretty, 

 which is fortunate, because, for some reason 

 or other, comparatively few of them seem 

 ever to flower. 



Dogtooth Violet. 



