WILD FLOWERS BLUE AND PURPLE 
share Job’s patience, while we picked, scraped and 
brushed the affectionate, triangular stickers of the 
Tick-trefoil that were everlastingly stuck to our clothes. 
It is a certain and easy means of identification, too. 
A number of species are distributed throughout the 
country. This one has a slender, naked stem grow- 
ing direct from the root some two or three feet high, 
and bearing sparsely scattered, small, purplish, 
butterfly-shaped flowers, which are succeeded by 
flat, two or three jointed, deeply lobed pods. They 
are covered with minute hooked hairs that are directly 
accountable for their adhering qualities. The stout, 
shorter leaf stalk bears a terminal cluster of long- 
stemmed compound leaves, each having three pointed, 
egg-shaped leaflets with entire margins. They are 
thin textured, slightly hairy, and on the under side 
their colouring is lighter. ‘Tickweed is common in dry 
fields and woods, from Quebec to Minnesota, south 
to Florida and Louisiana, during July and August. 
TUFTED, COW, OR BLUE VETCH. TINE- 
GRASS. TARE 
Vicia Cracca. Pea Family. 
The bluish purple flowers of this weak, angular- 
stemmed, climbing or trailing perennial vine are pro- 
fusely massed along the borders of thickets and in dry 
soils during June, July and August, from Newfound- 
land to New Jersey, and west to Kentucky, Iowa, and 
Minnesota. The compound leaf has from eighteen 
to twenty-four small, narrow, lance-shaped leaflets, 
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