Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 111
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… … MONKEY-FLOWER, TOAD-FLAX. crown the top of the stalk, set in a rosette ofgreen leaves. It is one of our rarer flowers,and a very interesting one, well worth gettingout of the wagon to gather. As I drove through a swampy part of Ulster County, my attentionwas attracted by a climbing plant…
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