PINK FAMILY 



pion enters upon its life journey sure to arrive at 

 the end. 



The flower is very beautiful, pure white, five-petioled, 

 each petal notched, a delicate corona at its throat; the 

 calyx darkened with many maroon-red hairy ribs. There 

 are two kinds of flowers, the sterile with ten stamens 

 and no pistil; the fertile with a pistil which as time 

 goes on becomes a fruiting capsule of exquisite urn form, 

 enlarging itself and expanding the calyx with it, until 

 when mature it turns back its little points at the rim 

 and makes a model for the artists of the world. 



By day the plant is a disheartened, unhappy-looking 

 creature, the spent blossoms are falling, the coming 

 ones are pushing out from the enlarging calyxes and 

 parting the five reddish teeth. But as night approaches 

 both poise and attitude change. They open white, 

 alert, expectant, and pour forth a wealth of fragrance 

 upon the evening air, 



** . . . from buds that keep 

 Their odor to themselves all day, 

 But when the sunlight dies away- 

 Let the delicious secret out 

 To every breeze that roams about." 



Lychnis dioica, the Red Campion, very similar to 

 the White, is often found growing with it. 



BLADDER CAMPION 



Silene latijdlia. SiUne vulgaris. 



Silene, Greek, saliva, in allusion to the viscid secretions 

 of many species. 



Perennial by creeping rootstocks. Naturalized from 

 Europe. Prefers moist soil, and founc in fields, road- 



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