. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. r CREHPING PHLOX. PIins, to the tall Plijox Maculata that raises its full cluster of rose-purple flowers in meadows, or the gorgeous Phlox Drummondii that adorns the prairies, all are beautilul. Phlox Keptans is one of the most elegant of these plants. I'rotn New York to Georgia and through wide stretches of Canada, it opens its large, blue-purple, fragrant flowers in , springy places along the mountains. Its time of flowering is May. The stems creep ahnig the ground, often to a grea
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. r CREHPING PHLOX. PIins, to the tall Plijox Maculata that raises its full cluster of rose-purple flowers in meadows, or the gorgeous Phlox Drummondii that adorns the prairies, all are beautilul. Phlox Keptans is one of the most elegant of these plants. I'rotn New York to Georgia and through wide stretches of Canada, it opens its large, blue-purple, fragrant flowers in , springy places along the mountains. Its time of flowering is May. The stems creep ahnig the ground, often to a great length, bearing i)airs of bright green leaves at rather distinct inter\'als. These sterile .shooLs grow like the I,inn;ea or some of the Sl>eedwclls. liut the stalk that bears the flowers rises upward in true Phlox fashion. In the language of the flowers. Phlox signifies " ; Is it oecause all are united in admiring the beauty of these plants?. X t 11% fe BLUETS. PLATE 184. HOUSTONIA C/ERULEA. (MADDER FAMILY.) Root'itocki filiform ,â ttfmi tuftfd. slfmif*. btaHihina: Ifavfs spatuUUf. tftf root-lraifs on lUndrr peltolts ; stfm-traifi ifsule. /vi v tuitntw: flowns letminating the tlh/otm branchft, solitary ia}yx itry mui/i,/our'/ot>rd; lorolla with a long s/rnJe» tuh/ and a spuuidina. Jont-lolvii bordrt. â f i>f contentment are the meek little Bluets. Swet'l tlower, thou tellest how hearts As jmre aiitl tt'iuler as thy leaf, as low Atul hiiiiilile as thy stem, v, ill surely know The joy that |x-ai'e ; MHIJ-MS ^) The lines of Percival might have Won addressed to ti'.e Houstonia, so aptly do they voice the si)irit of this little plant. HoustcMia Civrulea is a common plant of fields and roadsides in North America, opening its azure, yellow-eye<i in April and May. Burroughs has a pretty conceit in regard to this flower. "The Houstonia," he writes, "â'innocence 'âflecking or streaking the cold spri
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