PINK 



glowing warmth of summer, and to have no memory of that 

 snowy past which appears to leave its imprint on so many blos- 

 soms of the early year. 



In waste places, from June until September or later, we find 

 the small clustered pink flowers, which open transiently in the 

 sunshine, of the sleepy catchfly, S. antirrhina. 



MOSS PINK * GROUND PINK.* 



Phlox siibiilata. Polemonium Family. 



Stems. — Creeping; tufted. Leaves. — Evergreen; awl-shaped; crowded; 

 small. Flowers. — Bright purple-pink ; with a darker, or sometimes with a 

 white centre. Calyx. — With five awl-shaped teeth. Corolla. — P'ive-lobed. 

 Stamens. — Five; unequally inserted in the tube of the corolla. Pistil. — 

 One ; with a three-lobed style. 



Every spring this little evergreen plant clothes the dry hill- 

 sides with a glowing mantle of purple-pink. Southern New 

 York is probably its most northerly range in our Eastern States. 



Great masses of moss-pinks may be seen covering the rocks 

 in Central Park early in May. 



PINK LADY'S SLIPPER. MOCCASIN-FLOWER.f 



Cypripediiim acaule. Orchis Family. ^ ' 



Scape. — Eight to twelve inches high; two-leaved at base ; downy; one- 

 flowered. Leaves. — Two; large; many-nerved and plaited ; sheathing at 

 the base. Flowers. — Solitary; the pink, veiny lip, an inflated pouch ; se- 

 pals and petals greenish and spreading. 



' Graceful and tall the slender, drooping stem, 

 With two broad leaves below. 

 Shapely the flower so lightly poised between, 

 And warm her rosy glow," 



writes Elaine Goodale of the moccasin-flower. This is a blos- 

 som whose charm never wanes. It seems to be touched with the 

 spirit of the deep woods, and there is a certain fitness in its Ind- 

 ian name, for it looks as though it came direct from the home of 

 * See note, p. 202. t For Plate XC, see frontispiece. 



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