Identifier: nativeflowersfer01meeh (find matches)
Title: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901
Subjects: Wild flowers -- United States Ferns -- United States
Publisher: Boston : L. Prang and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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tterknown in connection with Spircea tomentosa, there is no reasonwhy it should supersede Shrubby Cinque-foil. Dr. I. H. Hall,hov/ever, in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. I,says that it is the P. argtita which the people of Connecticutcall Hard Hack, and which is so bad a weed there. It is said to be a remarkable fact that, although all otheranimals will eat Potcntilla fruticosa greedily, hogs cannot bepersuaded, under any circumstances, to touch it. We have notbeen able to verify this from experience, and so give it as partof existing history, subject to future experiment; for in thesematters repetition of observations does no harm. In someparts of Europe, brooms are made of the branches, which aresaid to be equal to heath or birch, but the plant has no knownuse in this country. Explanation of the Plate.— i. A flowering branch. — 2. Calyx in full-face view, show-ing its beauty for ornamental designs. — 3. Calyx, showing the five inflexed, upper sepals. Plate 30.
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LiNUM PERENNE L PRATfO & COMPATTi, BOSTON LINUM PERENNE. PERENNIAL FLAX. NATURAL ORDER, LINACEtE. LiNUM PERENNE, L. —Smooth and glaucous, one to two and a half feet high, branching above,leafy; leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, three to eighteen lines long, acute ; stipular glandsnone ; flowers large, blue, in few-flowered corymbs, or scattered on the leafy branches onslender pedicels; sepals three to five nerved, ovate, acute, or obtuse, one and a half totwo and a half lines long; capsule globose, acute, exceeding the sepals, at length dehiscentby ten valves, the prominent false partition long-ciliate; fruiting pedicels erect or deflexcd.(Botany of California. See also Porters Flora of Colorado, Watsons Botany of the i,othParallel, and Woods Class-Book of Botany) Oh, the goodly flax-flower !It groweth on the hill,And be the breeze awake or sleep, It never standeth still.It seemeth all astir with life, As if it loved to thrive.As if it had a merry heartWithin its stem alive !

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