PINK WILD FLOWERS 
notched at the broadened apex. The many flowers are 
gathered in crowded terminal clusters. This low- 
growing Pink is found from New York to Florida, 
and west to Michigan and Kentucky. 
MOTHERWORT. COWTHWORT 
Leonitrus Cardiaca. Mint Family. 
The tall, leafy, and often branched spires of this 
familiar, old-fashioned, domestic herb of past gen- 
erations, is commonly found about old dwellings and 
along roadsides, where it grows from two to five feet 
in height. The square stem is rather stout, and, 
together with the foliage, is usually lightly dusted with 
whitish powder. The branches are straight and 
ascending. The thin and rather soft leaves are notice- 
ably veined, and are set in close, opposite pairs, which 
swing out in every direction on slender stems. The 
leaves are wedge-shaped toward the base, and become 
divided above the middle into three sharply toothed 
lobes with the central division much larger and longer 
than the rest. The lower leaves which are long stemmed 
are much broader and are deeply cut with rounded, 
irregularly toothed lobes. Numerous little wreaths 
of tiny pink, purple, or white flowers are set around 
the stalk at the angle of each pair of leaves and at 
close intervals. The tubular corolla is two-lipped. 
The erect upper lip, which encloses the stamens, is 
slightly arched and densely covered with white, woolly 
hairs above. The spreading and mottled lower lip is 
three-lobed, with the middle one much the largest. 
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