SOME PRAIRIE FLOWERS go! 
15. Harebell: Bluebell. A delicate 
plant "with pretty 
blue, bell-shaped flowers, and rounded leaves at the base of 
the stem. It is famous in England and 
Scotland. It should do well in the flower 
garden among other perennials if prop- 
erly sheltered. 
16. Northern Bedstraw (Galiwm).—It 
is too bad that this pretty white flower 
has not a better name. The individual 
flowers are small, but a large number of 
them are crowded to- 
gether into a compact 
panicle that is dainty 
with minute bristles. 
feet high. 
17. Ox-eye: False 
Sunflower. — This 
showy, yellow-flow- 
ered plant resemblesa 
wild sunflower, but 
blooms earlier in the 
season. It is usually two or three feet 
high and has large, broad leaves growing 
opposite each other on the stem. Some- 
times found as a weed. 
18. Long-headed Coneflower: 
Prairie Coneflower.— This is another 
“compound flower ” having yellow mar- 
NoRTHERN BEDSTRAW 
Merapow Parsnip 
and attractive. The fruit or seed is covered 
The narrow leaves 
are arranged in foursaround thestem. The 
plant stands erect and is from one to two 
MIDSUMMER 
Ox-EYE (a) AND LoNc- 
HEADED CONE- 
FLOWER (b) 
