HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD PLOWERS 



Leaves, 2 to 3-pinnately compound, thin, the leaflets cut to the 

 midrib. Late blooming, from August to October. 



Tall, slender, smooth perennials found in swamps from New 

 England westward, and to the mountains of North Carolina. 



Great Angelica 



Angelica, atropvrpurea. — Family, Parsley. Color, greenish white. 

 heaves, large, twice or thrice ternately divided. Leaflets very 

 sharply serrate. Easily known by its stout, dark purple stem. 

 4 to 6 feet tall. June and July. 



Although coarse and large, this plant possesses a certain 

 virile attractiveness. River-banks, brooks, in the Northern 

 States. 



Wild Carrot. Queen's Lace 



Daucus Carbia. — Family, Parsley. Color, white, except that 

 the central flower of each umbel is defective and purplish. After 

 flowering the umbel becomes concave or nest-shaped. Leaves, 

 2 to 3-pinnately compound. 1 to 3 feet high. Summer. 



Too well known to need description. Imported from 

 Europe, it has become a common and most troublesome 

 weed in and about cultivated grounds. In New Jersey 

 whole fields are white with the wild carrot. Were it less 

 common, the soft, fine appearance of the umbels of flowers, 

 together with its prettily cut leaf, might win favor. As it 

 is, the flower painter finds it a pleasant thing to transfer to 

 canvas, but the farmer does not like it. 



One-flowered Pyrola 



Moneses uniftora (name means "single delight"). — Family, 

 Heath. Color, white or pink (see p. 276). Sepals and petals, 5, 

 the latter roundish, wide open, J inch across. Filaments, awl- 

 shaped, with anthers 2 -horned. Stigma, 5-lobed, quite large. 

 Leaves, clustered at the root, round, thin, veiny, pointed, toothed, 

 less than 1 inch long. The scape has a scaly bract or two upon 

 it, with a single, nodding flower rising 3 or 4 inches from the 

 underground stem. June and July. 



Many dear little plants of the Heath Family may be looked 

 for in our deep, shady woods, but none is more appealing 

 in its small, dainty life than the one-flowered pyrola. To 

 find it is a delight. But let us not remove it from its home. 

 There is too much danger of these interesting plants disap- 

 pearing from their haunts. In deep, cool woods in the 

 Northern States and in the Rocky Mountains. 



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