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Cow Wheat. Melampyrimi Americcmiim 



Found on the borders of light woods from July to September. 



The stalk is 4 to 6 inches, — or perhaps more, — high; it is branching, 

 leafy, woody-fibred, and slightly rough to the touch. In color, red- 

 dish-gray. 



The lower leaves are long and narrow, with entire margins ; the 

 upper are broader and cut at the base into long spine-like notches ; the 

 surface is slightly rough. Color, yellow-green, growing .lighter toward 

 the flowers. They are set on the stalk in pairs. 



The inconspicuous flowers are tubular and 2-lipped ; greenish 

 white, the lower lip being pale yellow ; their calices 4-cleft, small, and 

 green. They grow singly from the angles of the upper leaves. 



The shadowy stamens, seen under the arch of the upper lip, are 

 vaguely suggestive of an eye. This is a tidy little plant, with no pre- 

 tensions to beauty. 



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