MILK WORT FAMILY. Polygalaceas. 



Milkwort 



Pohjgala 

 polygama 

 Dull crims 

 June-July 



The tiny aesthetic, dull crimson flowers 

 of this species are borne in delicate long 

 clusters at the tips of the leafy stems. The 

 leaves are light dull green, lance-shaped, 

 and crowded on the slender stem, tooth- 

 less, and rather blunt, with a bristlelike tip. Rarely the 

 flowers are nearly white ; the eight stamens are more or 

 less conspicuous. The plant also bears cleistogamous 

 flowers on subterranean horizontal branches, and these 

 are numerous enough to justify the specific title, poly- 

 gama. 5-15 inches high. Dry sandy soil common 

 everywhere, but locally abundant only. 



A much less showy species with white 

 Snakeroot or greenish white flowers and fewer lance- 

 Polygala shaped leaves, the lowest ones very small 



Senega and scalelike. The small terminal flower- 



White or cluster dense. It bears no cleistogamous 



greenish white bi ossoms> Stem 6-12 inches high, simple 

 or slightly branched. In rocky woodlands, 

 from western New Eng., south to N. Car., among the 

 mountains, and west to Minn, and Mo. 



A brandling and leafy species with 

 globular or oblong, compact flower-clus- 

 ters of deep or pale magenta blossoms ; 

 rarely they are white. It is the calyx 

 which contributes the ruddy magenta to 

 the flower ; the yellowish petals are hidden within. 

 The stem is slightly angled. The little leaves are similar 

 to those of P. polygama. 6-12 inches high. In moist 

 and sandy fields and roadsides, New Eng., south to S. 

 Car., and west to Minn., Ark., and La. 



Polygdla 

 sanguined 

 Magenta 

 June- 

 September 



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