WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
four or more pistils. The flowers have from three to 
five petal-like sepals. The leaf and flower stems are 
thin and delicate, and contribute to the plant’s 
daintiness. 
The Purplish Meadow Rue, 7. revolutum, flourishes 
between the Early and the Tall species. It grows 
from one to seven feet high in dry, rocky wood- 
zands, and along river banks from Nova Scotia 
to Florida, and westward to Arizona, during 
June, July and August. The stem is often stained 
with purple, and the rather large, thick, dark green 
leaves are waxy beneath, have three notches and 
are more or less hairy to the touch. The flowers are 
tinged with purple. The plant emits a heavy odour. 
TALL MEADOW RUE 
Thalictrum polygamum. Crowfoot Family. 
During midsummer when swampy, open woods and 
low, wet meadows are overrun with the rank luxuriant 
growth of vegetation peculiar to such localities, the 
Tall Meadow Rue will be found in all its glory, tower- 
ing head and shoulders triumphantly above the tangled, 
struggling mass. And above them all, it will continue 
to hold its proud head, whether its ambitious com- 
panions grow three feet or a dozen feet high. What a 
noble lesson it teaches discontented mortals to make 
the best of surrounding conditions, and to be ever on the 
alert to keep just ahead of every competitor, regardless 
of his pace. If this were not the case with the Meadow 
Rue, it would soon become lost in the struggle, and 
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