48 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



There is a hairy look to stem and flower, which is 

 not altogether aster-like ; the leaves are small and 

 far between, and the stena is thick and juicy. The 

 flowers come about the 1st of June, and are seen in 

 plenty beside the road and in damp places. 



Of all the dainty, tiny flowers that 

 Bluets, . 



Houstoniacaruiea. ^loom m late spnng, the little bluets 

 is perhaps the daintiest. "What is 

 satisfactory, too, about the flower is the fact that it 

 does not shut up and wilt immediately after being 

 picked. It is such an attractive 

 little thing that Mr. W. Atlee Bur- 

 pee, the horticulturist, has intro- 

 duced it to the public as a culti- 

 vated garden flower. The flower 

 is barely half an inch across; it 

 is a simple-looking, four-rayed co- 

 rolla, sometimes white, but oftener 

 pale-purplish blue, with a dainty 

 spot of golden yellow around its 

 eye. In Campton the roadsides 

 and meadows are starred all over 

 with little bunches of this dainty 

 gem. From the middle of May to the end of June 

 the flower continues to bloom in sunshine and 

 shadow ; in fact, it grows everywhere except in the 

 dark, wild forest. The flower was named for Dr. 



Bluets. 



