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North American Wild Flowers - Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
North American Wild Flowers
Published by Good Press, 2019
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EAN 4064066199548
Table of Contents
DESCRIPTION OF THE TITLE PAGE.
LIVER-LEAF. (SHARP LOBED HEPATICA.) Hepatica acutiloba.
BELLWORT. (WOOD DAFFODIL.) Uvularia perfoliata.
WOOD ANEMONE. Anemone nemorosa.
SPRING BEAUTY. Claytonia Virginica.
ADDERS-TONGUE. (DOG-TOOTHED VIOLET.) Erythronium Americanum.
WHITE TRILLIUM. (DEATH FLOWER.) Trillium Grandiflorum.
ROCK COLUMBINE. Aquilegia Canadensis.
SQUIRREL CORN. Dicentra Canadensis.
PURPLE TRILLIUM. (DEATH-FLOWER.—BIRTH-ROOT.) Trillium erectum.
WOOD GERANIUM. (CRANES-BILL.) Geranium maculatum.
CHICKWEED WINTERGREEN. Trientalis Americana.
SWEET WINTERGREEN. Pyrola elliptica.
ONE FLOWERED PYROLA. Moneses uniflora.
FLOWERING RASPBERRY. Rubus Odoratus.
SPEEDWELL. (AMERICAN BROOKLIME.) Veronica Americana.
YELLOW LADY’S SLIPPERS. Cypripedium parviflorum and Cypripedium pubescens.
LARGE BLUE FLAG. Iris Versicolor. Fleur-de-luce.
SMALL CRANBERRY. Vaccinium Oxycoccus.
WILD ORANGE LILY. Lilium Philadelphicum.
CANADIAN HAREBELL. Campanula Rotundifolia.
SHOWY LADY’S SLIPPER. (MOCCASIN FLOWER.) Cypripedium spectabile.
EARLY WILD ROSE. Rosa Blanda.
PENTSTEMON BEARD-TONGUE. Pentstemon pubescens.
SWEET SCENTED WATER LILY. Nymphæa Odorata.
YELLOW POND LILY. (SPATTER DOCK.) Nuphar advena.
PITCHER PLANT. (SOLDIER’S DRINKING CUP.) Sarracenia purpurea.
PAINTED CUP, SCARLET CUP. Castilleia coccinea.
SHOWY ORCHIS. Orchis spectabilis.
INDIAN TURNIP. (Arum family .) Arum triphyllum
CONE FLOWER. Rudbeckia fulgida.
PREFACE
TO THE
WILD FLOWERS OF NORTH AMERICA.
T
he first and second edition of our Book of Wild Flowers was published last year under the title of CANADIAN WILD FLOWERS;
but it has been suggested by some American friends that we ought not to have limited the title to the Wild Flowers of Canada, as nature has given them a much wider geographical range, and, in fact, there are none of those that have been portrayed and described in our volume but may be found diffused over the whole of the Eastern and Northern States of the Union, as well as to the North and West of the Great Lakes. We, therefore, have rectified the error in our present issue, not wishing to put asunder those whom the Great Creator has united in one harmonious whole, each family and tribe finding its fitting place as when it issued freshly forth from the bounteous hand of God who formed it for the use of His creatures and to His own honor and glory.
As our present volume embraces but a select few of the Native Flowers of this Northern Range of the Continent, it is our intention to follow it by succeeding series, which will present to our readers the most attractive of our lovely Wild Flowers, and flowering shrubs. The subject offers a wide field for our future labours.
What a garland of loveliness has nature woven for man’s admiration, and yet, comparatively speaking, how few appreciate the beauties thus lavishly bestowed upon them?
The inhabitants of the crowded cities know little of them even by name, and those that dwell among them pass them by as though they heeded them not, or regarded them as worthless weeds, crying, Cut them down, why cumber they the ground?
To such careless ones they do indeed waste their sweetness on the desert air.
Yet the Wild Flowers have deeper meanings and graver teachings than the learned books of classical lore so much prized by the scholar, if he will but receive them.
They shew him the parental care of a benificent God for the winged creatures of the air, and for the sustenance of the beasts of the field. They point to the better life, the resurrection from the darkness of the grave. They are emblems of man’s beauty and of his frailty. They lend us by flowery paths from earth to heaven, where the flowers fade not away. Shall we then coldly disregard the flowers that our God has made so wondrously fair, to beautify the earth we live on?
Mothers of America teach your little ones to love the Wild Flowers and they will love the soil on which they grew, and in all their wanderings through the world their hearts will turn back with loving reverence to the land of their birth, to that dear home endeared to their hearts by the remembrance of the flowers that they plucked and wove for their brows in their happy hours of gladsome childhood.
How many a war-worn soldier would say with the German hero of Schiller’s tragedy:
"Oh gladly would I give the blood stained victor’s wreath
For the first violet of the early spring,
Plucked in those quiet fields where I have journeyed."
Schiller.
DESCRIPTION OF THE TITLE PAGE.
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Our Artist has tastefully combined in the wreath that adorns her title page several of our native Spring Flowers. The simple blossoms of Claytonia Virginica, better known by its familiar name "
Spring Beauty
," may easily be recognized from the right hand figure in the group of the first plate in the book. For a description of it see page 16.
The tall slender flower on the left side on the title page is Potentilla Canadensis, (Var simplex). This slender trailing plant may be found in open grassy thickets, by road side wastes, at the foot of old stumps, and similar localities, with the common Cinquefoil or Silver Leaf. This last species is much the most attractive plant to the lover of wild flowers. It