. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. ' m P1,ATB aas. LEAD PLANT. AMORPHA FRUTICOSA. (PEA FAMILY.) SAruftfn\ itcmi bfcomimz hi rltacfou\ titwants thi" summit much f ..uthrj, smtyt/h or fiuftrifrul; Utiifs altr*mttf, ihitlfiiuutili': Uafieli num/touh on ihotl pettolulfi. pb/oue, mucronaU pubfu^nt rsfiividli v I'u tht ivtHS brufiith ,â fio:i' n smijU ii tomg pamuUd ruirmfs : calvr /ive-ttMtlhfd; prtalt Tvamling exctpt iht itiiudtiKt, »-Ai- iicciilinr among our gcTiera of the Vea Family. The showy flowersâfanciful
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. ' m P1,ATB aas. LEAD PLANT. AMORPHA FRUTICOSA. (PEA FAMILY.) SAruftfn\ itcmi bfcomimz hi rltacfou\ titwants thi" summit much f ..uthrj, smtyt/h or fiuftrifrul; Utiifs altr*mttf, ihitlfiiuutili': Uafieli num/touh on ihotl pettolulfi. pb/oue, mucronaU pubfu^nt rsfiividli v I'u tht ivtHS brufiith ,â fio:i' n smijU ii tomg pamuUd ruirmfs : calvr /ive-ttMtlhfd; prtalt Tvamling exctpt iht itiiudtiKt, »-Ai- iicciilinr among our gcTiera of the Vea Family. The showy flowersâfancifully tenned butterfly-shaped by the old biitaiiists, which distinguished n\osl of the members of this great order, are rep':iced in the lA'ad Plants by small blosserfect flower of the Pea Family, have quite disapjiearwl. Hence the " Aniorpha " which means "; "i Ainoq)ha Fruticosti is the most conunon .spei les in Eastern North America. It grows in Pennsylvania, straying northward and from tliere southward to the Gulf of Mexico, but is much more common west of the Appalachian region, extending across the plains to tlie Rocky Mountains. It is usually met with in bottomlands along streams, often attaining (piite consideralile size. It was called the Lead Plant because it was supi>osed to indicate the presence of lead in the soil. If so, there is leiul almost everywhere, Jierhaps in minute quantities, along the banks of our Western and Southern PLATB aa6. FALSE DRAGON-HEAD. PHYSOSTEGIA VIRGINIANA. (MINT FAMILY.) stem stiioot/t, erect from a ihoit. pctciintal nii/tiixi. /oui-nugleti, Icajy, branihiHg at summit; Uaies utteinate sessile, lauceolale or ofate-iiblong, aeuminate at apex, coarsely sertate; Jfoxvers large in a simple or compound spike ; corotla labiate, throat open. ^. I)R.\GON-HEAD is one of the most splendid American of the Mint Family. Like the Skull-caps and the False Snap-dragon, it has no pe
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