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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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rding tothe chemistry of the breakfast table and of the kit-chen at baking time. This plant is naturalized inthis country from Europe, and is supposed to possesshealing powers that country people still regard withmuch simple faith. The flowers have been steepedand used in cases of dropsy, jaundice, and variousskin effections. The fresh plant has been bruisedand applied as a poultice on boils, and the flowers aremade into an ointment that is used for the same pur-pose, as well as for other skin eruptions. In Germany,the flowers are used as a yellow dye. Country folksused the juice in milk as a fly-poison. It is a veryleafy perennial, having short rootstocks, and grow-ing erect from one to three feet in height. The usuallysingle, slender stalk is round and smooth, light greenin colour, and has a whitish bloom. The long, nar-row, grass-like leaves taper to a point at both ends, andthey clasp the stalk alternately. The colour is palegreen, and the midrib extends the entire length. The 164
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BUTTER AND EGGS. TOADFLAX. Linaria vulgaris WILD FLOWERS yellow and orange light yellow, two-lipped, tubular flower has a long,sharp, outward curved spur at its base. The twoearlike lobes of the upper lip are elevated, and prettilycurved over the lower one. The spreading lower liphas three unequal outward-curving lobes; the centreone being the smallest, and at the throat, this lip hasa great, orange-coloured, tongue-like swelling thatnearly closes the tube, and hides the four unequalstamens and pistil, which are flattened against theupper lip. The throat, which can be seen by spread-ing apart the jaw-like lips of the flattened corolla,is lined with a silky down. The light green, five-parted calyx is very small. The flowers are hungon short stems springing from the axils of the leaflets,and are closely gathered in a dense terminal spike.This plant has an unattractive odour, and is foundgrowing most everywhere in fields, pastures, andalong roadsides, ditches and banks, often in smallcol

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