. Studies of plant life in Canada [microform] : wild flowers, flowering shrubs, and grasses. Plants; Plantes; Botany; Botanique. STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE " Thou coniest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen ; 1 hou waitest late, and coniest alone When wimmIs are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is at an end. " Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye liook through its fringes to the sky ; Blue, blue as if the sky let fall A flower fi-oni its cerulean ; But, bewildered among so many beauties, I have wandered away f
. Studies of plant life in Canada [microform] : wild flowers, flowering shrubs, and grasses. Plants; Plantes; Botany; Botanique. STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE " Thou coniest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen ; 1 hou waitest late, and coniest alone When wimmIs are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is at an end. " Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye liook through its fringes to the sky ; Blue, blue as if the sky let fall A flower fi-oni its cerulean ; But, bewildered among so many beauties, I have wandered away from my first love, the large dark-blue or open-belled Gentian, Gciitiann HuiKtuaria (L.). Tlie leaves of this species are somewhat clasping at the base and pointed at the end, at first green, but assuming a purplish-bronze hue; the smooth stem is also of a reddish purple, with the large open five-deft dark-blue corollas teminal on the summit, generally three blossoms; between th • axils of the leaves three or more somewhat smaller bells may be found at intervals clustered on the flower stem. The beautifully- folded deep purple buds are surrounded by the pointed bracts and leaves. This species is less nmrked than (h Andrcirsii (Griseb) by the toothed appendages between the lobes of the flower; the absence of these plaited folds gives our plant a wider, more open 'lower, which renders it more attractive to the eye of the florist. There is something almost disappointing in the closed sac-like blossom of the. Closed Oentiax—Geniiana Andrcirsii (Griseb.). Lovely as it is, one would like to peep within the closed lips which so provokingly conceal the interior. The tips of the corolla are white, but the sac-like flower is of a full 144. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Traill, Catherine Parr Stri
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