Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 110
and lobed, and the whole effectof the plant is striking. The clusters ofpurple pendents have a very decorativeeffect. This is a species of nabalus, ofthe great composite family, and is some-times called lions-foot. The flower iscream-colored, but quite inconspicuous.The noticeable thing about it is… … LOOSESTRIFE. A TALK ABOUT WILD FLOWERS. 586 something intensely blue in a wet, weedy place,and on getting some of it found it to be the closedgentian, a flower to which I have already referredas never opening but always remaining a bud.Four or five of these blue buds, each like the endof your…
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