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“The first conscious thought about wild flowers was to find out their names—the first conscious pleasure—and then I began to see so many that I had not previously noticed. Once you wish to identify them, there is nothing escapes, down to the little white chickweed of the path...
“The first conscious thought about wild flowers was to find out their names—the first conscious pleasure—and then I began to see so many that I had not previously noticed. Once...
2. Part 2The pistil (p. 11) is the seed-bearing organ. The pollen-grains which are deposited on its roughened summit throw out minute tubes which reach the little ovules in the ovary bel...
3. Part 3These flowers are peculiarly adapted to cross-fertilization through insect agency, although one might imagine the contrary to be the case from the relative positions of stamens...
4. Part 4There is something singularly fragile and spring-like in the appearance of this plant as its heart-shaped blossoms nod from the rocky ledges where they thrive best. One would su...
5. Part 5_Stem._—Five to seven inches high. _Leaves._—Ovate, pointed, the upper crowded into an apparent whorl of four to six. _Flowers._—Greenish, small, in a cluster which is surrounde...
6. Part 6He who seeks the cool shade of the evergreens on a hot July day is likely to discover the nodding wax-like flowers of this little plant. They are delicate and pretty, with a bac...
7. Part 7_Scape._—A few inches high. _Leaves._—Rounded, abruptly narrowed into spreading, hairy leaf-stalks; beset with reddish, gland-bearing bristles. _Flowers._—White, growing in a on...
8. Part 8This pretty little orchid is found in great abundance in September and October. The botany relegates it to “wet places,” but I have seen dry upland pastures as well as low-lying...
9. Part 9The tuberous rootstock has the flavor, and something the shape, of the cucumber, and was probably used as food by the Indians. It would not be an uninteresting study to discover...
10. Part 10The partridge-pea is closely related to the wild senna, and a pretty, delicate plant it is, with graceful foliage, and flowers in late summer which surprise us with their size,...
11. Part 11_Stem._—Smooth, three to six feet high, usually branching. _Leaves._—The lower usually deeply incised, the upper narrowly oblong, incised, or entire. _Flowers._—Yellow, large, i...
12. Part 12“I must not forget to mention that delicate and lovely flower of May, the fringed polygala. You gather it when you go for the fragrant showy orchis—that is, if you are lucky eno...
13. Part 13The common mallow, _Malva rotundifolia_, which overruns the country dooryards and village waysides, is a little plant with rounded, heart-shaped leaves and small purplish flower...
14. Part 14_Stem._—From two to four feet high. _Leaves._—Alternate, narrowly oblong, slightly toothed. _Flowers._—Bright red, growing in a raceme. _Calyx._—Five-cleft. _Corolla._—Somewhat...
15. Part 15_Stem._—Stout, angled on one side, leafy, one to three feet high. _Leaves._—Flat and sword-shaped, with their inner surfaces coherent for about half of their length. _Flowers._—...
16. Part 16During the summer we note in the dry, open fields the blue racemes of the Indian tobacco, and in the later year the inflated pods which give it its specific name. The plant is s...
17. Part 17_Stems._—Two to three feet high, glandular, more or less hairy. _Leaves._—Heart-shaped, with short, rounded lobes, wavy-toothed, mostly from the root. _Flowers._—Greenish or pur...
18. Part 181. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Re-indexed footnotes usi...