22 FLOWERS OF. THE WOODS AND COPSES 
Cuckoo Pint. Woodlands of this common but beautiful English wild 
flower, which helps with Hedge Garlic and Greater Stitchwort to 
beautify also the country lanes, are a lovely sight in spring. 
The Red Campion is a tall, erect plant, with several stems with 
thickened joints, often bent, round, branched, the upper ones dividing. 
The radical leaves are blunt above, stalked, the stem-leaves linear 
lance-shaped, tapering. The whole plant is clothed with hairs. The 
stems often have a purple 
tinge. Numbers of plants 
grow together, and a bed 
of Red Campion in bloom 
is a thing to be remem- 
bered. The plant grows 
in tufts with many leafy 
shoots. 
The flowers grow on 
dichotomous panicles, 
regularly dividing into 
two, and the plants are 
dicecious. The petals are 
divided into two nearly 
to the base, with narrow, 
spreading lobes. The 
calyx-teeth are triangular. 
The capsule is nearly 
rounded, with ten teeth, 
the latter bent back. 
The seeds are black, and 
SIGN GARNDee have rows of points 
Rep Campion (Zychnis dioica, L.) arranged lengthwise. 
Red Campion is often 
3 ft. high. The flowers are in bloom in June and July. The plant 
is perennial, and may be propagated by division. 
The flowers are female or pistillate, and male or staminate, and 
though flowering by day (diurnal) they have much the same character 
as Lychuis alba, but are conspicuous and large, and adapted to visits 
by insects with a fairly long proboscis. Red Campion is diaecious, and 
the pistillate plant is more robust. A black or brown powder is pro- 
duced by a fungus, Us¢zdago antherorum, which attacks the stamens in 
this and Z, aéba, and the spores are dispersed like pollen by insects. 
The seeds are adapted to wind dispersal. The capsule has a wide 
