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day. The stem is rather weak with many joints, reaching the
length of one or two feet. It is much like crab grass. Two
petals are large rounded and blue, while the third is tiny
and colorless; the whole flower peeps out from a clasping,
heart-shaped leaf or spathe. It flowers from June to August
in the woods or fields and around the house.

Daniel P. Haviland

References:

Flower Guide,
By Chester A. Reed

B-

This is an interesting paper. It
would seem more effective if you
had written a conclusion; it
might, perhaps, include a
generalization about these
flowers in very properly your
own philosophy about wild
flowers; on the necessity in
care in picking them. The
botanical terms or a triple [?]
to a lay man.