PINK 



England and Long Island are oftentimes a vivid mass of color 

 owing to their delicate blossoms. The plant varies somewhat 

 in the size of its flowers and in the manner of its growth. 



The little seaside gerardia, G. mariti7na, is from four inches to 

 a foot high. Its smaller blossoms are also found in salt marshes. 



The slender gerardia, G. tenuifolia, is common in mountain- 

 ous regions. The leaves of this species are exceedingly narrow. 

 Like the false foxglove (PI. LXXXIII.) and other members of this 

 genus, these plants are supposed to be parasitic in their habits. 



SALT MARSH FLEABANE. 



Pluchea camphorata. Composite Family. 



Stem. — Two to five feet high. Leaves. — Pale; thickish ; oblong or 

 lance-shaped; toothed. Flower-heads. — Pink; small; in flat-topped clus- 

 ters ; composed entirely of tubular flowers. 



In the salt marshes where we find the starry sea pinks and 

 the feathery sea lavender, we notice a pallid-looking plant whose 

 pink flower-buds are long in opening. It is late summer or 

 autumn before the salt marsh fleabane is fairly in blossom. 

 There is a strong fragrance to the plant which hardly suggests 

 camphor, despite its specific title. 



FALSE DRAGON-HEAD. 



Physostegia Virginiatia. Mint Family. 



Stems. — Square; upright; wand-like. Leaves. — Opposite; sessile; nar- 

 row; usually toothed. Flowers. — Showy; rose-pink; purple- veined ; crowd- 

 ed in terminal leafless spikes. Calyx. — Five-toothed. Corolla. — One inch 

 long; funnel-form, with an inflated throat; two-lipped. Upper lip erect; 

 lower lip small, spreading, three-parted, its middle lobe the largest, broad 

 and notched. Stamens. — Four. Pistil. — One, with two-lobed style. Ovary. 

 — Deeply four-lobed. 



By the roadside, and in wet meadows, during the late sum- 

 mer or even early in the fall, we find the pink clusters of the 

 false dragon -head. 



These blossoms are likely to arouse the suspicion that the 



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