GREEN GROUP 



Dyer's Weed or Weld. Wild Mignonette 

 Reseda Luteola (from resedo, to calm, it being supposed to 

 possess sedative properties). — Family, Mignonette. Color, dull, 

 greenish yellow. Calyx, 4-parted. Corolla of 4 petals. The 

 upper one 3 to 5 times cut, the 2 side-petals 3 -divided, the lower 

 one entire. Stamens numerous on a fleshy disk The small flowers 

 grow in long, narrow, stiff spikes. Leaves, alternate, lance-shaped, 

 with glands in place of stipules. 



A roadside plant, but not very common. Height, 2 feet. 

 Used for dyeing yellow. The fragrant mignonette of our 

 gardens is reseda odorata. 



Ditch Stonecrop 



Penthorum sedotdes. — - Family, Orpine. Color, greenish or 

 greenish yellow, found in sepals. No petals. Stamens, 10. Pistils, 

 5, pined below in a queer little capsule which has 5 horns. The 

 capsule opens by the falling-off of these horns. Flowers grow on 

 the upper side of a leafless stem, the terminal blossoming first. 

 Leaves, scattered, lance-shaped, pointed, not fleshy as in many 

 members of this family. \ to 2 feet high. July to October. 



Wet grounds, as river-banks or borders of brooks. (See 

 illustration, p. 32.) 



Pigmy Weed 



Tillaea aquatica. — Family, Orpine. A symmetrical flower, with 

 petals, sepals, stamens, and pistils, 3 or 4. Color, greenish white. 

 Leaves, those on the stem, opposite; those at the root, entire, 

 clustered, fleshy. July to September. 



A queer, little, mud-loving plant. The tiny, 2-inch-high 

 stem bears small, single flowers in the leaf axils. Local, 

 near the coast, in brackish mud. 



Swamp Saxifrage 



Saxifraga pennsytbanica. (Name means rock - breaker, from 

 many species growing in clefts of rocks.) — Family, Saxifrage. 

 Flowers, perfect, with 5 greenish petals, a 5 -parted calyx with 

 lobes recurved. Stamens, 10. Styles, 2. Flowers clustered in 

 cymes or panicles. Leaves clustered at the root, rather large, 4 

 to 8 inches long, obscurely toothed, upon short, broad petioles. 

 Those on stem smaller, alternate. 



For this genus a rather large growth, 1 to 2 feet high. 

 Common and not pretty, in low, wet meadows or swamps. 

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