Wild flowers and where they grow . avender-colored speedwell, and dared malevolent pois-ons to pluck the small-flowered crowfoot, and those gorgeouschrysanthemum-like clusters which we learned to know as thegolden ragwort, or squaw-weed. The squaws, let me say. have been well perpetuated in thefloral world ; in a flower, a weed, a root and a berry ; namely,the dark trillium (before mentioned); this golden blossom,the partridge-berry (JlitcJiella). and one of the odd parasitesof the broom rape kind. And very likely there are manymore that are named for the dusky women of the must not
Wild flowers and where they grow . avender-colored speedwell, and dared malevolent pois-ons to pluck the small-flowered crowfoot, and those gorgeouschrysanthemum-like clusters which we learned to know as thegolden ragwort, or squaw-weed. The squaws, let me say. have been well perpetuated in thefloral world ; in a flower, a weed, a root and a berry ; namely,the dark trillium (before mentioned); this golden blossom,the partridge-berry (JlitcJiella). and one of the odd parasitesof the broom rape kind. And very likely there are manymore that are named for the dusky women of the must not omit the cohosh, which keeps up the memory ofthe Indian baby as pappoose-root. Two of the most barbaric things were the purple avens andthe swamp saxifrage. The first is a flower within a flower,with red. hairy, pointed petals, or sepals, or members of somesort, like the ears of a fawn : then a cream-colored cup; thenmore surroundings and hooked things ; and inside of all. abundle of green fibres tipped with gold. And what is true. DO YOU LOVE BUTTER? SQUA W-PLANTS AND PURPLE A VENS. 67 calyx, or what flower part, no one but a botanist can stays like this for a long time, changing at last to a cone;and when the seed arrangements have matured, it is a bristlingpurple ball. The avens is not handsome, but singular, rich, outlandish,complex. Red leaves, red flowers, red stems, even the under-ground parts are that same tawny red, as if the very sap inits veins was drenched in color. It is said that the rootstaste of clove. Of course we dug down to ascertain. I am reluctant tosay that one of our number was ready to taste of almostanything; wisely refraining, however, when it came to Jack-in-the-pulpit, which has a bulbous root of the kind called a conn, so like a certain garden esculent that it has anothername of u bog onion. Being warned that whoever bit intothis fierce burning dragon-root would wish more and morethat they had not, we let it alone. In our pursuit of knowledg
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