BLUE AND PURPLE WILD FLOWERS 
Lupine is found from Maine and Ontario to Minne- 
sota, Florida and Louisiana. 
PURPLE MEDIC. ALFALFA. LUCERNE. 
CHILIAN, OR BRAZILIAN CLOVER. 
Medicago sativa. Pea Family. 
This purple-flowered Clover is extensively raised 
in the Western and Southern States where hundreds of 
thousands of tons are annually harvested for fodder. 
It makes the best grade of hay, and has been cultivated 
for at least two thousand years. The smooth, slender, 
upright or ascending stalk is much branched, and grows 
a foot or more high. The three-parted leaves are 
short stemmed, and the leaflets much resemble those of 
the Stone Clover in a general way. They are a little 
broader, however, and the blunt apex is more abrupt 
and ragged toothed. The middle one is offset from 
the others in a little kinked stem. The joints are 
sheathed after the manner of the latter species, though 
slightly modified. The rather pretty flower head is 
composed of numerous violet, purple or bluish florets, 
arranged in several short, dense clusters on slender 
stems. The seed pod is curiously twisted into two or 
three spires. Alfalfa grows wild during the summer, 
in fields and waste places most everywhere from New 
England and Ontario, westward and southward. 
TICKWEED. TICK-TREFOIL 
Desmodium nudiflorum. Pea Family. 
Every one of us who has tramped through the 
fields and woods during the fall has had occasion to: 
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