. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. r TOAD-FLAX, BUTTFR-AND-EGGS. PItl-^ftU'J,\l, linear, arutf <tt t*ot/i ftiili; Humetims. tit lonir, trimttta! taiftitrs : corolla two- iiff**^' s/'itrtfi/, ;tith the tkiimt chu'tt by a fitlfale, ortjHge anttyellow, NIC of tlic pRttiest of weeds is tlie Toa;y with leaves. These are narrow and rather pale. The showy tlowers are in limj;, spike- like clusters, ".'he corolla is pale-yellow, with an orange-colored palate. Hence the appropriate if not altogether romantic name of
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. r TOAD-FLAX, BUTTFR-AND-EGGS. PItl-^ftU'J,\l, linear, arutf <tt t*ot/i ftiili; Humetims. tit lonir, trimttta! taiftitrs : corolla two- iiff**^' s/'itrtfi/, ;tith the tkiimt chu'tt by a fitlfale, ortjHge anttyellow, NIC of tlic pRttiest of weeds is tlie Toa;y with leaves. These are narrow and rather pale. The showy tlowers are in limj;, spike- like clusters, ".'he corolla is pale-yellow, with an orange-colored palate. Hence the appropriate if not altogether romantic name of "; writes of it, —" Linaria vulgaris, Butter-atid-Eggs. Toad-Klax, was seen the 19th of June. It is rather rich- con r-'l •., ith a not disagreeable scent. It is called a troublesome weed. Flowers must not be too profuse and obtrusive, else tlie.\' ncipiire the reputation of weeds. It grows almost like a cotton-grass, so above and distinct from its leaves, in patches higher and higher up the hill," While the blossom of the Toad-Flax is ordinarily irregular, it sometimes happ ns that an almost regular, five-lobed corolla is produced. It is one of the best-known cases, in plants, of relurn to an ancestral type. The Lin,iria is fertilized by bees. 'I'he palate is pressed down by the weight of these insects, whereas, .such as have lighter bodies, butter- flies, for example, are refused PI<ATE 128. RED RATTLE. PEDICULARIS j'ALUSTRlS WLASSOVIANA. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) Steitt sittootlt, eieit. htatii lit'tii. leafv . lettiex attei nate. yhoit piltn: ',/. /ititMtltifiit. etrit. litliHliii \eKinent) linear. t<iotliett; Jfim-en in tliort, tpike lite laiei . lil^iitte, iifrpti lip helmet-ihapett, liKtfi hiitttd ati'l Jliil. I at tile eiiiii h-puri)le i'v color, and tw-lii)ped The lower lip is broad and jK-ndant, while the niipir is erect and arched at top, somewhal like the mediieval helmet It wants the
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