WILD FLOWERS BLUE AND PURFLE 
centred, purple flowers have a star-shaped corolla, and 
are set in a small, green, five-parted, bell-shaped calyx. 
They hang gracefully on their curved stemlets in small. 
loose, spreading and nodding clusters, from a slender 
stem which springs from the axils of the leaves. The 
five deeply cleft and pointed segments of the corolla are 
prettily recurved, and at the base of each there are two 
green spots. ‘The five yellow stamens project with their 
anthers united in the form of acone. The bright red 
berries form very attractive drooping clusters in the 
fall. Nightshade is found from New Brunswick to 
Minnesota, and south to North Carolina and Kansas. 
The plant has a peculiar juice which is at first 
sweetish to the taste, then soon becoming bitter and 
it has also some medicinal qualities. It is related 
to the potato, tomato and egg-plant of our gardens, 
and is naturalized from Europe.. 
BLUE, OR WILD TOAD FLAX 
Linarta canadénsis. Figwort Family. 
Here is an extremely dainty and slender white 
throated blue-flowered relative of the notoriously com- 
mon Butter-and-Eggs, and it is found in dry, sandy soils. 
from May to September. The slim, delicate, smooth and 
shining green stalk is often branched, and grows from. 
four inches to two feet or more in height, annually or bi- 
annually. It is weak-stemmed, and is often found sup- 
ported by neighbouring vegetation. The alternating, - 
toothless leaves are very small, stemless, and sharply 
pointed. The pretty little tubular flower is two lipped, 
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