PINK 



the flower on a Sabbath day, and, entranced by its masses of 

 pinkish lilac-color, named it for the holy day. Indeed, this 

 belief is so deeply ingrained in the Plymouth mind that, we are 

 told, strong objections are made if any other flowers are irrever- 

 ently mingled with it in church decoration. Yet the legend was 

 invented not more than twenty-five years ago by a man whose 

 identity is still well remembered ; and thus it is of even more re- 

 cent origin than the one, still more universally credited, which 

 says that the Pilgrim Fathers landed upon Plymouth Rock." 



BUSH CLOVER. 



Lespedeza procumbens. Pulse Family. 



Stems. — Slender; trailing, and prostrate. Leaves. — Divided into three 

 clover-like leaflets. Flowers. — Papilionaceous; purplish-pink ; veiny. Pod. 

 — Small ; rounded ; flat ; one-seeded. 



The flowers of this plant often have the appearance of spring- 

 ing directly from the earth amid a mass of clover leaves. They 

 are common in dry soil in the late summer and autumn, as are 

 the other members of the same genus. 



L. reticulata is an erect, very leafy species with similar 

 blossoms, which are chiefly clustered near the upper part of the 

 stem. The bush clovers betray at once their kinship with the 

 tick-trefoils, but usually are found in more sandy, open places. 



Z. polystachya has upright wand-like stems from two to four 

 feet high. Its yellowish flowers, usually with a pink or purple 

 spot on the standard, grow in oblong spikes on elongated stalks. 

 Those of Z. capitata are also yellowish with a purple spot, and 

 are clustered in globular heads. 



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