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PANSY OR HE ARTS-EASE,— (Viola Tricolob.) 

 This plant is cultivated or runs wild, roots annual or 

 biennial, grows low upper leaves oval, the lower ones 

 heartshaped; stipules large and leaflike* Corolla, yel- 

 low, whiteish violet-blue, purple, varying or mixed, 

 large and showy when cultivated, smaller and less color 

 when wild, leaves much cut and parted, somewhat re- 

 sembling the crow-foot famil}^ Plant blooms in 

 spring and summer; belongs to the Violet family. 

 STAR GRASS. -(Hypoxys.) 

 Flowers small, bright yellow, petals six in number, 

 evenly divided forming a star; flowers are few and 

 close fastened to the seed vessel; stamens six to eight 

 with lobed or eared anthers. Stems long and smooth 

 with two bracts at the base of each pedicel; leaves, long 

 and grasslike, with a sharp edge on one side, covered 

 with downy hair, with a sharp edge on one side. 

 Plant small with bulbous root, growing in dry local- 

 ities and blooming in summer, a member of the 

 Amaryllis family. 



TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE. 



(LOMICERA SeMPERVIREKS.) 



The uppermost pair of leaves on this plant are 

 united into one rounded body or double lobe; flowers 

 long and trumpet shaped arranged in whorls or circles 

 around a slender stem; a woody climbing plant found 

 wild in the south. Flowers red and yellowish inside, 

 parted at the base; stamens, four reaching outside the 

 flower; pistil, longer; stigma roundish or knob form, 

 green or yellow in color; anthers, brownish. Plant 

 blooms in early summer and belongs to the Honey- 

 suckle family. 



