30 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



The flowering win- 



Flowering 



Winterffreen, , i t j. 



^ ^ ' temreen, a delicate 

 or Fringed ° ' 



Polygala. little plant, is no 



Polygala pauci/olia. 



relative of the 

 checkerberry ; the latter belongs to 

 the Heath family, and the former to 

 the Polygala family. The flower- 

 ing wintergreen bears a conspicuous 

 crimson-pink blossom, perhaps three 

 quarters of an inch long, with a 

 fringed crest ; the leaves are crowded 

 at the summit of the slender stem, 

 and from among these the pretty 

 flower looks out. The plant is 

 hardly four inches high, and blos- 

 soms in May and June ; the speci- 

 men from which my drawing was made grew on 

 the edge of the Dismal Pool in the Crawford 

 Notch, N. H. 



