Chapter I: Front Matter

HOW TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERS
=A Guide=
_TO THE NAMES, HAUNTS, AND HABITS OF OUR COMMON WILD FLOWERS_

BY

MRS. WILLIAM STARR DANA

ILLUSTRATED BY

MARION SATTERLEE

“The first conscious thought about wild flowers was to find out their names—the first conscious pleasure—and then I began to see so many that I had not previously noticed. Once you wish to identify them, there is nothing escapes, down to the little white chickweed of the path and the moss of the wall.”

—RICHARD JEFFERIES

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

1893

COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

CONTENTS

PAGE
_Preface_, vii
_How to Use the Book_, ix
_Introductory Chapter_, _1_
_Explanation of Terms_, _8_
_Notable Plant Families_, _13_
_Flower Descriptions_:
_I. White_, _22_
_II. Yellow_, _113_
_III. Pink_, _173_
_IV. Red_, _213_
_V. Blue and Purple_, _229_
_VI. Miscellaneous_, _276_
_Index to Latin Names_, _287_
„ _to English Names_, _292_
„ _of Technical Terms_, _298_

One of these days some one will give us a hand-book of our wild flowers, by the aid of which we shall all be able to name those we gather in our walks without the trouble of analyzing them. In this book we shall have a list of all our flowers arranged according to color, as white flowers, blue flowers, yellow flowers, pink flowers, etc., with place of growth and time of blooming.

JOHN BURROUGHS.