HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



alternate are shorter than the others. Calyx, 2-lipped. Pod, 

 flat, containing several seeds. Flowers, in elongated racemes. 

 Leaves, simple, lance-shape, small. June and July. 



Bush}' - plants, thornless, with a certain bright prettiness, 

 found on roadsides and dry hills in poor soil. To this genus 

 belongs the common broom of the old country. 



Scotch Broom 



Cytisus scopkrius. — Family, Pulse. Color, yellow. Flowers, 

 papilionaceous, large, single or in pairs, in the axils, on long 

 pedicels, making loose, leafy racemes. Style, long, projecting, 

 incurved. Leaves, 3 -foliate, small, smooth, sometimes simple. 



A stiff, much-branched shrub, 3 to 4 feet high, found in 

 sandy soil from Massachusetts to Virginia, southward. 



Shrubby St. John's-wort 



Hypericum prolificum. — Family, St. John's-wort. Color, yel- 

 low. Leaves, narrow, oblong or lance-shape, 1 to 2 inches long, 

 dotted, obtuse at apex, numerous, making the shrub leafy from 

 base to top. Sepals, 5. Petals, 5. Stamens, many, conspicuous, 

 standing up from the wide-spreading petals. Styles, 3, and red 

 pod 3 -celled. Flmvcrs, clustered at the ends of 2 -edged branch- 

 lets. July to September. 



A much-branched, bushy shrub, 1 to 5 feet high, found from 

 New Jersey to New England and westward. 



H. densiflorum. — Leaves, smaller than in the last, thickly 

 crowded upon slender branches, very bushy toward the top. 

 Flowers, small, h inch long, in compound cymes. 



New Jersey pine barrens to Kentucky and southward. 

 Poverty Grass. False or Beach Heather 



Hudsbnia, tomentbsa. — Family, Rockrose. Color, yellow. Petals, 

 5, falling after a day's time, much larger than the calyx. Leaves, 

 bristly, awl-shaped, small, overlapping one another, closely 

 packed on the stem. Flowers, very small, borne among the leaves 

 near the tops of the branches; sessile or with short peduncles. 



This plant grows a few inches high, in a close and bushy 

 fashion, heather-like, in sand along the dunes or on the edges 

 of pine woods. 



H. ericotdes differs from the last in that the flowers are borne 

 on slender peduncles and the leaves are more loosely arranged. 

 May and June. 



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