BLUE AND PURPLE GROUP 



has medicinal properties. Rich woods, Connecticut to 

 Florida. 



Sea Purslane 



Sesu<vium maritimum. — Family, Aizoaceae. Color, purple. 

 Petals, none. Calyx, purplish inside, 5-lobed, with the numerous 

 stamens inserted on it. Styles, 3 to 5. Pod, 3 to 5-celled, open- 

 ing by a round lid at the top. Leaves, fleshy, opposite, on succulent 

 stems lying on the ground, the flowers axillary. 



A maritime herb found along the seacoast from Long 

 Island to Florida. 



Moss Campion 



Silene acaulis. — Family, Pink. Color, purple. Calyx, 5- 

 toothed. Petals, notched at apex or entire, purple, rarely white. 

 Leaves, needle-shaped, crowded on the stem like those of a moss. 

 Flowers, small, sessile, single. 



A delicate, low, Alpine species found in the White Moun- 

 tains, New Hampshire, northward and westward. 1 or 2 

 inches high, tufted. 



Water Shield 



Brasenia Schreberu — Family, Water Lily. Color, purple. 

 Sepals and petals, 3 or 4. Stamens, 12 or more. Pistils, numer- 

 ous. Flowers, in leaf-axils, small, dull purple. Leaves, floating, 

 2 to 3 inches wide, alternate, roundish or oval, on a central, long 

 petiole. June to August. 



Growing in ponds and sluggish streams, an aquatic from 

 a creeping rootstock. 



Early Meadow Rue 



Thalidrum dioicum. — Family, Crowfoot. Color, greenish or pur- 

 plish. (See Green Flowers, p. 30.) 



Purplish Meadow Rue 



T. da.syca.rpwn. — Color, purplish. Flowers, dioecious, the stami- 

 nate blossoms with sepals and stamens of a purplish color, the 

 filaments hair-like, soon drooping. No petals. Flowers, in com- 

 pound panicles on purple stems, 2 to 4 feet tall. Leaves, 

 compound, delicate, sessile, the leaflets mostly 3-toothed, often 

 producing hairs tipped with glands or bits of wax. June to 

 August. 



In woods and rocky hills, New England to Florida and 

 westward. Found 6,000 feet high in North Carolina. 



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