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WILD FLOWERS WORTH KNOWINGby NELTJE BLANCHANPREFACE
A still more popular edition of what has proved to the author to be a surprisingly popular book, has been prepared by the able hand of Mr. Ma Don Dickinson, and is now offered in the hope that many more people will find the wild flowers in Nature's garden all about us well worth knowing. For flowers have distinct objects in life and are everything they are for the most justifiable of reasons, _i.e._, the perpetuation and the improvement of their species. The means they employ to accomplish these ends are so various and so consummately clever that, in learning to understand them, we are brought to realize how similar they are to the fundamental aims of even the human race. Indeed there are few life principles that plants have not worked out satisfactorily. The problems of adapting oneself to one's environment, of insuring healthy families, of starting one's children well in life, of founding new colonies in distant lands, of the cooperative method of conducting business as opposed to the individualistic, of laying up treasure in the bank for future use, of punishing vice and rewarding virtue - these and many other problems of mankind the flowers have worked out with the help of insects, through the ages. To really understand what the wild flowers are doing, what the scheme of each one is, besides looking beautiful, is to give one a broader sympathy with both man and Nature and to add a real interest and joy to life which cannot be too widely shared.
Neltje Blanchan. Contents
Preface, and Editor's Note
WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY _(Alismaceae)
ARUM FAMILY (Araceae)
SPIDERWORT FAMILY jCommelinaceae)
PICKEREL-WEED FAMILY _(Pontederiaceae)
LILY FAMILY (Liliaceae)
AMARYLLIS FAMILY _(Amaryllidaceae)
IRIS FAMILY (Iridaceae)
ORCHIS FAMILY (Orchidaceae)
BUCKWHEAT FAMILY (Polygonaceae)
POKE WEED FAMILY (Phytolaccaceae)
PINK FAMILY (Caryophyllaceae)
PURSLANE FAMILY _(Portulacaceae)
WAILK-LILY FAMILY _(f'1ymphaeaceae)
CROWFOOT FAMILY jRanunculaceae)
BARBERRY FAMILY _(Berberidaceae)
POPPY FAMILY _(Papaveraceae)
FUMITORY FAMILY _(Fumariaceae)
MUSTARD FAIVIILY _(Cruciferae)
PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY (Sarraceniaceae)
SUNDEW FAMILY jDioseraceae)
SAXIFRAGE FAMILY _(Saxifragaceae)
WITCH-HAZEL FAMILY _(Hamamelidaceae)_ Witch-hazel
ROSE FAMILY (Rosaceae)
PULSE FAMILY _(Leguminosae)
WOOD-SORREL FAMILY _(Oxalidaceae)
GERANIUM FAMILY _(Geraniaceae)
MILKWORT FAIVIILY (Polygalaceae)
TOUCH-ME-NOT FAIVIILY (Balsaminaceae)
BUCKTHORN FAMILY jRhamnaceae)
MALLOW FAMILY _(Malvaceae)
ST. JOHN'S-WORT FAIVIILY _(Hypericaceae)
ROCKROSE FAMILY (Cistaceae)
VIOLET FAMILY _Wiolaceae)
EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY (Onagraceae)
GINSENG FAMILY jAraliaceae)
PARSLEY FAMILY _(Umbelliferae)
DOGWOOD FAMILY _(Cornaceae)
HEATH FAMILY (Ericaceae)
PRIMROSE FAMILY _(Primulaceae)
GENTIAN FAMILY _(Gentianaceae)
DOGBANE FAMILY _(Apocynaceae)
MILKWEED FAMILY (Asclepiadaceae)
CONVOLVULUS FAMILY jConvolvulaceae)
POLEMONIUM FAMILY _(Polemoniaceae)
BORAGE FAMILY _(Boraginaceae)
VERVAIN FAIVIILY _(Verbenaceae)
MINT FAMILY _(Labiatae)
NIGHTSHADE FAMILY _(Solanaceae)
FIGWORT FAIVIILY _(Scrophulariaceae)
BROOM-RAPE FAMILY LOrobanchaceae)
MADDER FA1VIILY (_Rubiaceae_)
BLUEBELL FA1VIILY (_Campanulaceae_)
LOBELIA FAMILY (_Lobeliaceae_)
COMPOSITE FAMILY (_Compositae_)
COLOR KEY
GENERAL INDEX OF NAMES
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