. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. VERVAIN OR WILD HYSSOP. middle and buds at the top. Each blossom (Fig. XCVII., 3) has a ave-toothed calyx Pig. XCVII., 4), an irre^lar five-lobed corolla, two long and two short stamenst (Fw. XCVII., 6), and a single piatil differing from that of the mint fam- ily in not being deeply f our-lotieci, alUiuugh if i« four-ceiltMi (Fig. XCVII., 5.) It belongs to the Verbena family, a group better represented in warmer coua- tries, and is commonly found throughout Canada. The Orpine family c
. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. VERVAIN OR WILD HYSSOP. middle and buds at the top. Each blossom (Fig. XCVII., 3) has a ave-toothed calyx Pig. XCVII., 4), an irre^lar five-lobed corolla, two long and two short stamenst (Fw. XCVII., 6), and a single piatil differing from that of the mint fam- ily in not being deeply f our-lotieci, alUiuugh if i« four-ceiltMi (Fig. XCVII., 5.) It belongs to the Verbena family, a group better represented in warmer coua- tries, and is commonly found throughout Canada. The Orpine family contains lew genera, but they are of wide distribution, and the Bodums are well represented in North Am- erica. The common ornHp or live-forever, Scdum teleptuum, h wd from cultiva- tion in nearly all the oid settlements in Canada and has become a troublesome weed by roadsides and along garden tences. It ia a perennial plant with thick, rfpshy stems, which have enough vit^ity to grow even when picked and placed in a botanist's press. Thick, ovate, oQoraely tootned, gray- ish-green leaves (Fig. 1) are some- what thickly set upon the stem, the lower being aometime« stalked. Dense, broud cIuh- ters (Kg. XCVIII., 2) of purple Bowere ap-. FIG. XCVIII.—ORPINE OR LIVE-FOR- EVER. pear from June to September. Each bkM- som has a four or five-lobed calyx, four or five separate petals, eight or ten stamens and a pistil of four or tive carpeJs, separate or uni+ed at their bases (Fig. XCVIII 6). The generic name is from the Latin *edere, to «it, in allusion to the manner in which some members of the group attach them- selves to rocks and wpIIf. The doeely allied Saxifrage family is re- presented throughout Canada by the charm- ing graw-of-pamaasia, Famaaaia palustria. Broad, oval or heart-ehape-l leaves on long petioles are grouped at the base of the plant (Fig. XCIX., 1), from tbeir mid^t arise slender flawer-stalkfi from eight inches to two feet high, with a clasping lea
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