HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



S. tenuifolia. — Color, reddish purple. Much like the preceding, 

 with flowers in upper leaf-axils. Stem, smooth, slender, branched, 

 i to 2 \ feet high. Leaves, thin, lance-shaped, toothed, with 

 petioles, often obtuse or tending to heart-shape at base. June to 

 August. 



Low and moist fields, New York to Illinois, south to North 

 Carolina and Louisiana. Found 4,000 feet high in North 

 Carolina. 



Lyre-leaved Sage 



Salvia, lyrata. — Family, Mint. Color, bluish purple. Calyx, 2- 

 lipped, the upper lip 3-toothed, sometimes entire. Corolla, gaping, 

 deeply cut into 2 lips, the upper straight, slightly notched or en- 

 tire, the lower 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens, 2 perfect ones on 

 short filaments, at whose summits a thread crosses, bearing at 

 one extremity a single anther-cell ascending under the upper lip, 

 and at the other an imperfect but pollen-bearing anther, descend- 

 ing. This separation of the anther- cells by a transverse filament 

 is characteristic of sages. Leaves, from the root, deeply cut, lyre- 

 shape, sometimes entire; on the stem, generally a single pair, 

 small and narrow; near the flower, a few, bract-like. May and 

 June. 



Sandy, open woods and barrens, Connecticut to Illinois, 

 south to Florida and Texas. 



S* officinalis is the common aromatic sage of the gardens, with 

 purplish blue flowers in whorls about the stem. The name is de- 

 rived from salvus, "in good health," from supposed curative 

 properties. An old writer says: "It is good for the head and 

 brain. It quickens the memory and senses. No man needs to 

 doubt of the wholesomeness of sage." 



Wild Bergamot 



Monarda fistulosa. — Family, Mint. Color, purple or white 

 dotted with purple. (See White Flowers, p. 121.) 



American Pennyroyal 



Hedebma putegiotdes. — Family, Mint. Color, blue. Calyx and 

 corolla, 2-lipped. The upper lip of corolla is notched; lower, 3- 

 cleft. Stamens, 2. Low, erect stems, with a few flowers in whorls 

 in the leaf-axils near the tops of the branches. It is rough, hairy, 

 stiff, erect, growing plentifully in dry woods. 4 to 6 inches high. 

 Leaves, small, petioled, somewhat toothed, ovate, strongly scented. 



Dry fields and woods, New England southward and west- 

 ward. 



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