PINK 



SAND SPURREY. 



Biida rubra. Pink Family. 



"Two to six inches, often forming dense little mats." Leaves. — Lineaf, 

 flat, scarcely fleshy. Flowers. — Bright pink ; small. Calyx. — Of five sepals. 

 Corolla. — Of five petals. Stamens. — Two to ten. Pistil. — One, with three 

 styles. 



This little plant is found growing in sandy places along the 

 roadside. Its tiny, bright-hued blossoms are very dainty. 



The salt-marsh sand-spiirrey, B. 7narina, is a much fleshier 

 plant with paler flowers. It is found in salt marshes along the 

 coast. 



FIREWEED. GREAT WILLOW HERB. 



Epilobiiim angustifoliiim. Evening Primrose Family. 



Stem. — Four to seven feet high. Leaves. — Scattered; lance-shaped; 

 willow-like. Flotvers. — Purplish-pink; large; in a long raceme the upper 

 part of which is often nodding. Calyx. — Four-cleft. Corolla. — Of four 

 petals. Stamens. — Eight. Pistil. — One, with a four-lobed stigma. Fruit. 

 — A pod with silky-tufted seeds. 



In midsummer this striking plant begins to mass its deep- 

 hued blossoms along the roadsides and low meadows. It is sup- 

 posed to flourish with especial abundance in land that has newly 

 been burned over; hence, its common name of fireweed. Its 

 willow-like foliage has given it its other English title. The 

 likeness between the blossoms of this plant and those of the 

 evening primrose betray their kinship. When the stamens of 

 the fireweed first mature and discharge their pollen the still im- 

 mature style is curved backward and downward with its stigmas 

 closed. Later it straightens and lengthens to its full dimensions, 

 so spreading its four stigmas as to be in position to receive the 

 pollen of another flower from the visiting bee. 



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