i6 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



flower clothed with stateliness as well as beauty, and if quickly 

 placed in water will keep fresh for many days. 



It is pleasant to think that this is one of our own plants, it 

 being strictly indigenous to America. 



i8. Water-Lobelia 



Lobelia Dortmdnna. — Family, Lobelia. Color, pale blue to 

 whitish. Leaves, fleshy, all clustered at the root, hollow- 

 .stemmed, long, and narrow. Time, summer. 



Smooth and slender stemmed, from i to 4 feet high. A few 

 pale-blue flowers are arranged along the simple stem. 



Often growing in water, or upon the wet banks. 



L. Cdnbyi is a plant found in New Jersey and southward. 

 Slem, straight, i to 2 feet tall, bearing deep-blue flowers about 

 half an inch long on short pedicels in a loose raceme. Corolla 

 bearded inside. 



20. Brookweed. W^ater Pimpernel 



Sdmolus Valerundi. — Family, Primrose. Color, white. Leaves, 

 alternate, entire, broader above, narrower at the base. Titne, 

 summer and early fall. 



A delicate white flower in racemes on slender, smooth stems. 

 Round pods form below and the blossoms continue above. 

 The monopetalous corolla is a tiny bell divided into fives, with 

 5 stamens standing in the clefts. Plant about 6 or 8 inches 

 tall. 



Found growing on the edge of, or quite in, water, throughout 

 the United States. 



21. Forget-me-not 



Myosbiis laxa. — Family, 'Borage. Color, Wghthlue. Leaves, 

 small, pointed, broader at base, sessile. Time, -June, July. 

 Corolla, salver-shaped. Stamens, 5. 



