. A guide to the wild flowers [microform]. Wild flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Botanique. 2 So PLANTS CROWING IN I)R\' SOIL. place taken by yellowish brads. Stttn : copi)er yellow; twisting antl twining like a bunch of tangled wire ; parasitic. We may well iiuiiiire into the ways of this little parasite, which, although its victims are of a different class, is cjiiite as uncanny as the insectivorous plants. Its coiled seed drops into the ground, germinates, and sends up a yellow stem, which, when it has hardly reached two inches high, begins to stretch out for some shrub or plant about whic
. A guide to the wild flowers [microform]. Wild flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Botanique. 2 So PLANTS CROWING IN I)R\' SOIL. place taken by yellowish brads. Stttn : copi)er yellow; twisting antl twining like a bunch of tangled wire ; parasitic. We may well iiuiiiire into the ways of this little parasite, which, although its victims are of a different class, is cjiiite as uncanny as the insectivorous plants. Its coiled seed drops into the ground, germinates, and sends up a yellow stem, which, when it has hardly reached two inches high, begins to stretch out for some shrub or plant about which to entwine itself. It then puts out suckers which penetrate the bark and drain the already assimilated sap of the plant. The original ground stem withers and falls away. The dodder is therefore left wholly dependent for nourishment upon its victim. Its persist- ent close growth about the bark of a shrub inflicts great dam- age. The tangled gold threads are interesting when we come upon them ; but once the habits of the plant are known ii cannot but inspire us with a feeling of repulsion, COnnON MILKWEED. SILK WEED. {P/ate CXLIV.) Asclcptas Syriaca. FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM Milkivccti. riirplishpink. Scentless. Mostly nortliivard, June-August. Ilowc)-clusters : often four and a half inches in diameter. Construction, sec A. incarnata, page 76. Pods â two only, which hurst oi)en and let fly seeds witii beautiful, silky tufts, /.etnu's ' very large; six to eight inches long; opposite, or scattered; oblong; pubescent underneath , glabrous on the upper surface. Stem : tall ; coarse ; with a milky juice ; pubescent. One of the greatest charms of the wild flov/ers is that they never have to be bought. The beggar can enjoy the world flushed with myriad, evanescent hues that blend into each other like the delicate splendour of a bird's plumage quite as well as can a monarch on his throne. The only requisite is to have the discriminating eyes that see : see as do the art
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