. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. ^^ ^ DANDELION. TARAXACUM. PI,ATE 59- (DENS-LEONIS). !JN. ' )WEK FAMILY.) /^rtinuat, acttuUiCtmt,' tootitotk thott, thuk , Uutrs imtwtk or mriii/y so, fittiniififiif. liivisnnis riMiisrlv tiHitheii, thf uppermost » â h ' f.^gesl; scape bearing the large head naked, ho/ton'; tnvolu- ttal biacts iH two series; Jiowers alt strap-shaped, \e//tw: achenes Jurnished ii'ith a tujt of white hairs. **The dandelions and bnttercups Gild all the ;âI,owi! " Dear common flower that gro
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. ^^ ^ DANDELION. TARAXACUM. PI,ATE 59- (DENS-LEONIS). !JN. ' )WEK FAMILY.) /^rtinuat, acttuUiCtmt,' tootitotk thott, thuk , Uutrs imtwtk or mriii/y so, fittiniififiif. liivisnnis riMiisrlv tiHitheii, thf uppermost » â h ' f.^gesl; scape bearing the large head naked, ho/ton'; tnvolu- ttal biacts iH two series; Jiowers alt strap-shaped, \e//tw: achenes Jurnished ii'ith a tujt of white hairs. **The dandelions and bnttercups Gild all the ;âI,owi! " Dear common flower that growest Iwside the wa" Fnnjjinp the dusty road with hannless Kold, First pledge of blithesome ;â,. JOW glad we are to welcome the first dandelion it peers forth in some sheltered comer whet) the is taking on a fre;her green, when the buds on elm and maple begin to swell and the fresh fragrance of soil upturned by the plough is in the breeze. Chcerj" little yellow heads, awaiting but a day or two of warm, bright weather to show themselves. Sometimes they peep out in midwinter. But when spring has commenced in earnest, how " the dandelions fnmi the grass leap forth ! " In a twinkling the .sward is abla/.e with their blithe faces. Then, when the yellow flowers have faded, the stalk grows on, bearing at its sunnnit the ball of plumed se<xls which children blow away to tell the hour. We can forgive Huroix; the host of pauper-plants she has flung upon our shores, for to her we owe the daudelions, so called from the fancied r-'seniblance of its petals to the teeth of the PI,ATE 60. COMMON BLUE VIOLET. VIOLA OBLIQUA (CUCULLATA). (VIOLET FAMILY.) IWenntat Otamleuent; Irat-es on long peliulrt. htoadiv t'^u/r to almost ufhick/or. d/^plv he,trt-shaped: floityi \ on long, slendfr pedumles .â ,otolla defp blue, irregular, shall ttlunt spm ; untied hr the Alanieuls adoi'e the aiitheis tiilti a ling aiouitd the pistil. 'â¢tt
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