WILD FLOWERS BLUE AND PURPLE 
habits, but i is not easily discouraged in maintaining its 
livelihood, and spreads freely by its joints. It is 
common in fields and along woodsides from Quebec 
and Ontario, southern Maryland, and Michigan, from 
June to September. 
WILD LUPINE. OLD MAID’S BONNETS. 
WILD PEA 
Lupinus perénnis. Pea Family. 
Lupinus is derived from lupus, a wolf, and was ap- 
plied to this plant because the roots, which are deeply and 
firmly buried, were believed to rapidly exhaust the 
fertility of the soil. There might have been a time and 
place wherein its means of subsistence was begrudged. 
But it is certainly welcomed nowadays, when we are 
privileged to enjoy the azure reflections of its attrac- 
tive, pea-like flowers along railroad banks and on dry, 
sandy hillsides and waste fields, where it gathers to 
bloom during May and June. The round, hairy, 
leafy, perennial stalk is erect and branching, and 
grows one or two feet in height. The slender-stemmed, 
wheel-shaped leaf is composed of from seven to eleven 
long, narrow leaflets, which are widest toward their 
acutely pointed apex. They radiate from the stem 
and are thin textured, light green and toothless. At 
night they fold together like an umbrella. The numer- 
ous, sweetly scented, butterfly-shaped flowers form 
a long, loosely clustered, showy terminal spike of vivid 
blue. They blossom in great numbers at about the 
same time, and produce a very striking effect. Wild 
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