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Title: Wild flowers every child should know : arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stack, Frederic William, 1871-
Subjects: Flowers Wild flowers
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page and Company
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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observes Neltje Blanchan.Surely a more charming and appropriate comment onthe Sweet White Violet would be difficult to imagine,for the very modesty and nature of this dainty littlequeen of Violets defies the effort. If it is true that theViolets are steeped in the bluest blood of royalty, thenit must be true also that this particular Violet is mistressof them all. Its exclusive air of refinement, its exquisiterace, its delicate fragrance, even its robe of erminepetals, all tend to betray its dignity. In low, damp,open woods, or wet meadows and swamps, where fewflowers are wont to dwell, this tiny reflection of love andsimplicity waits, with becoming stateliness, to greet usduring April and May. It is one of the smallest, ifnot the smallest of the Violets, and is also one of theearliest to be found in blossom. The uniformly sweet-scented flower has five white petals. The upper pairare often long, narrow and decidedly recurved. It isusually beardless and has a short spur. The lower 272
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BLOODROOT. Sanguinaria canadensis i / V ^ 4 w^Mm ^^^^. &^^ irTm ^■\ .^m^.^ >^^p w^j^it0^^i!^^ - ~^^^ ■^^- DUTCHMANS BREECHES. Dicentra Cucullaria WILD FLOWERS white and greenish petals are veined or hair-lined with purple. Thematured flower measures from one-quarter to one-halfinch broad, and is borne singly on short, slenderstems that really seem a little stout for so small a blos-som. Though often found growing five or six incheshigh, the plant averages nearer two inches. The thintextured, smooth surfaced, yellow-green leaves areround heart-shaped with finely toothed margins. Theplant is stemless, that is, it has no main stalk, andthe leaf and flower stems spring directly from a veryslender rootstock. As the season advances, the plantsends out slender stolens or runners bearing a few petal-less flowers that never open. It is found from New-foundland and New Brunswick to Georgia and Louisi-ana, and in California. The Lance-leaved Violet, V. lanceolata, is a moreslender and

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