130 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



Field Mouse-ear 

 Chiokweed. 



veined. Gray graphically explains all the minor 

 diflEerences in a way which may be easily understood 

 by one to whom botany is only slightly familiar. 

 Tlie catchfly blooms in early summer. 



Field Mouse-ear The field mouse-ear 

 Chickweed. chickweed is one 



01 the commonest 

 weeds which grows by our roadsides 

 in all parts of the country. Prof. 

 Meehan says he found it in Bergen 

 Park, Colorado, at a height of 

 seven thousand feet above sea level. 

 So common is the little gray-white 

 flower that my sketch will be all 

 that is needed for its identifica- 

 tion. It blooms from April to 

 early August. It has an Alpine 

 origin and does not stand the hot 

 weather well, but with the return 

 of autumn it resumes "a green 

 moss-like growth which it retains 

 through the winter, ready for the 

 early bloom of spring." Thus 

 Prof. Meehan describes its char- 

 acter. The common name has no significance now, 

 as it originated long ago by a fancied resemblance to 

 a certain species of forget-me-not which used to be 



