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have an inferior ovary, with a slender style and a lobed stigma ; and 

 the latter have three stamens on the corolla. 



The Gentianacece is represented in bogs by the common Buckbean 

 or Marsh Trefoil {Menyarithes trifoliata), the only member of its 

 family with trifoUate leaves. This plant has a creeping stock ; and its 

 flowers, which are pink in the bud and pinkish white when expanded, 

 are in handsome racemes on stalks from six inches to a foot in length. 



The Marsh Trefoil. 



THE MARSH LOUSEWORT. 



The calyx has five short lobes ; and the bell-shaped, fleshly corolla 

 is deeply cut into five lobes which are beautifully fringed above 

 \vith deUcate filaments. The time of flowering is May to July. 



In the marshes, ditches, and wet meadows of most parts we may 

 see the Red Rattle or Marsh Lousewort {Pedicularis palustris) which 

 belongs to the order Scrophulariacece. It has an erect stem, from 

 six to eighteen inches high, mth reddish branches ; and pinnate leaves 

 with many oval segments more or less deeply cut. Its rather large 

 crimson flowers are on very short stalks in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, forming together a leafy raceme. The calyx is a broad, 



