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“Beetle, I must to the miller to have my oats ground to flour. Crush the bitter milkwort and boil the wormwood syrup while I am gone.”

Central Texas features bluebonnets, Mexican hat and white milkwort.

They came to a patch of milkwort—a blue as deep as that of the sky—with long stems creeping through the grass and each minute flower spreading its two upper petals like wings.

The strain is different from the one affecting olive trees in Puglia, and so far it has only affected milkwort plants, which can be eradicated with little bother since they are ornamental wildflowers.

In late spring the little flowers of the milkwort are common upon dry hill-slopes in the shade of the trees.