. Wild flowers every child should know : arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada . ect, like, forinstance, the florets of a freshly opened Clover. WILD, OR HOG PEANUT Amphicarpa monoica. Pea Family. This ill-named, slender, sparingly branched climb-ing vine grows from one to eight feet in length. It iscommon everywhere in moist thickets and rich, dampwoodlands during August and September. Threepointed, egg-shaped leaflets compose the compound are smooth, thin, toothless and short dehcate, light gree
. Wild flowers every child should know : arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada . ect, like, forinstance, the florets of a freshly opened Clover. WILD, OR HOG PEANUT Amphicarpa monoica. Pea Family. This ill-named, slender, sparingly branched climb-ing vine grows from one to eight feet in length. It iscommon everywhere in moist thickets and rich, dampwoodlands during August and September. Threepointed, egg-shaped leaflets compose the compound are smooth, thin, toothless and short dehcate, light green alternating leaves are slen-der stemmed. The butterfly-shaped flowers are gath-ered in small, drooping, short-stemmed clusters, at theleaf angles. They are purplish or lilac, and precede thenumerous small, hairy pods containing several mot-tled brown seeds. Rudimentary flowers are also borneon very slender, creeping stems at the base or root ofthe vine and ripen their fruit beneath the surface ofthe ground in the form of fleshy, pear-shaped are notorious rooters after these subterraneanPeanuts, and consequently country people began to 336. OX-EYE DAISY. Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum ^M ??? ^^^1 ^^M |^^H| ?^^^^H ^^^H I|ei|I^H^^ ^j^^^^H^^H ^M j^i^ l^^S m i^>^^9l W^Ki*%. • Til ?H i LARGE PURPLE-FRINGED ORCHIS. Habenaria fimbriata WILD FLOWERS blue and purple know this graceful, twining perennial as the HogPeanut. It is found from New Brunswick to Florida,west to Lake Superior, Nebraska, and Louisiana. THE VIOLETS Vtolaceae. Violet Family. Violets are probably the best and most popularlyknown of all the wild flowers. The Latin nameViola, is derived from the classic Greek, Ion. Jupiter,we are told, fell in love with lo, the daughter of theriver god, Inachus, and in order to conceal her fromthe jealousy of Juno, his wife, Jupiter changed lo intoa heifer, and then created the fragrant Violet that shemight feed upon the delicate petals during her trans-formation. So runs
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