. Our early wild flowers [microform] : a study of the herbaceous plants blooming in early spring in the northern states and Canada. Wild flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Botanique. SHEPHERD'S-PURSE Stcvi.—Erect, slender, smooth, or puliescent, one or several rising from a rosette of spreading leaves. Leaves.—^Hasal leaves lyrate, spatu- latc, or oblanceolatc, more or less toothed, three-fourths to two inches long; stem-leaves spatulatc or linear, one-half to one inch long. Flowers.—White crucifcrs, rather large; petals much longer than the calyx; pods one-half to an inch long, linear, nerved.
. Our early wild flowers [microform] : a study of the herbaceous plants blooming in early spring in the northern states and Canada. Wild flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Botanique. SHEPHERD'S-PURSE Stcvi.—Erect, slender, smooth, or puliescent, one or several rising from a rosette of spreading leaves. Leaves.—^Hasal leaves lyrate, spatu- latc, or oblanceolatc, more or less toothed, three-fourths to two inches long; stem-leaves spatulatc or linear, one-half to one inch long. Flowers.—White crucifcrs, rather large; petals much longer than the calyx; pods one-half to an inch long, linear, nerved. The Lyre-Leaved Rock-Cress ap- pears on sandy hillsides in sunny places. The little rosette from which the stems arise is about from three to four inches across and made of many small, deeply cut, obovate leaves. The stems vary in number from one to four and bear at their summit a cluster of white flowers rather large for the type. The raceme lengthens as the flowers ap- pear, after the fashion of Cruci- fcrcc, and a trail of slender pods soon Lyre-Lcavcd Rock-Cress. Arahis lyrdta SHEPHERD'S- PURSE Capsella bUrsa-pastoris. Bursa bUrsa-pasloris Capsilla. a diminutive of capsa, a box. Winter annual. Naturalized from Europe. Waste places, roadsides. World-wide. April-November. Root.—Strikes deep into the ground. Stem.—Six to eighteen inches high. Ill «P. 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. Toronto : McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart
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