. A guide to the wild flowers [microform]. Wild flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Botanique. i Plants Growing in Moist Soil: Low Meadows and by Running Streams. *^ Now when it flowerethy And when the banks and fields Are greener every day. And sweet is each bird's breath In the tree where he builds Singing after his way^ Spring comes to us with hasty steps and brief. Everywhere is leaf. And everywhere makes people laugh and play.** Rinaldo D*Aquino. LARGER BLUE FLAG. FLEUR-DE-LIS. {Plate Iris versicolor. FAMILY COLOUR irit. Reyalpurple^ variegated with while, yellow and green. ODOUR Sc


. A guide to the wild flowers [microform]. Wild flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Botanique. i Plants Growing in Moist Soil: Low Meadows and by Running Streams. *^ Now when it flowerethy And when the banks and fields Are greener every day. And sweet is each bird's breath In the tree where he builds Singing after his way^ Spring comes to us with hasty steps and brief. Everywhere is leaf. And everywhere makes people laugh and play.** Rinaldo D*Aquino. LARGER BLUE FLAG. FLEUR-DE-LIS. {Plate Iris versicolor. FAMILY COLOUR irit. Reyalpurple^ variegated with while, yellow and green. ODOUR Scentless, brSi7''pJrfaLT-''l^'li ^r^^"^ ** *.''^'^'^f °f *''« flower-Stalks ard orancnes. i'ertanth: of six divisions united bebw nto a tube- the three andX?L'P"c.'^^"^'^''^K'^""fe^ °^ y«"°*' "^^ th?eeiSn«'ones, erect and smaller. Stamens: three ; hidden under the overarching stvle. KstU' one, with a three-cleft petaMike style that arches over itf o?n stSfas* Lecwe:: equitant, or folded lengthwise ; sword^haped; mostly aUhebS of the stem. Stem : stout; leafy ; branched above; glauiius. ^ * Juno, as we must all agree, was a goddess of rare taste. For her favourit/* hirH che rhnep «•!'- •\& t .* • !. ..lie t-nuse inc peatuuk, atia her atcendaQt, or messenger, was Iris, the goddess of the rainbow. In this regal. RANOE TIME OP BLOOM Southwardto May, June, the Gulf,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lounsberry, Alice; Rowan, Ellis, 1858-1922. Toronto : McLelland, Goodchild & Steward


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