WILD FLOWERS BLUE AND PURPLE 
light purple or pale violet. in colour, rarely white. 
The stamens are tipped with orange. The lateral 
petals are slightly bearded, and the lower one is 
marked with fine violet lines. The smooth, light 
green, rounding, heart-shaped leaves have finely 
toothed edges and grow in pairs. The base of the 
stems is sheathed with a small, pointed and toothed 
leaf-like stipule. The early leaf stems later develop 
creeping branches, and increase from two to six 
inches in length. In the fall this Violet bears flower- 
less buds on very short stems. It is fairly common 
in moist, shady situations, from Labrador to Min- 
nesota, and south to North Carolina and Kentucky. 
SEA LAVENDER. MARSH ROSEMARY. CANKER- 
ROOT. SEA THRIFT. INK-ROOT. 
Limonium carolinianum. Leadwort Family. 
The misty, spray-like bloom of the Sea Lavender 
fits in nicely with the azure stars of the Chicory in an 
endeavour to harmonize the colour scheme of the 
sea and sky with that of the sandy shores. It grows 
abundantly in the salt meadows along the Atlantic 
seaboard from Labrador to Florida and to Texas. 
The slender, grooved, leafless stalk is much branched 
at the top, and grows one or two feet high from a 
thick, smooth, fleshy, perennial rootstock. The thick, 
narrow, oblong leaf is bluntly pointed, and tapers into 
a long, slender, margined stem, which rises from the 
root. The margin is slightly wavy, and the midrib is 
strong. The minute, solitary, pale purple flowers are 
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