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Bouncing Bet, 

 or Soapwort. 



tSaponaria 



officinalis. 



flower, and the general resemblance of all three may 

 be accounted for as a family likeness. £. chy^ysan- 

 themoides grows in wet places and reaches a height 

 of about two feet. 



Bouncing Bet 

 comes to lis 

 fi-om Europe; 

 she is a culti- 

 vated rather than a wild 

 character. Still, she has 

 escaped the confines of the gar- 

 den, and may be found any day 

 in summer basking in the sunshine 

 beside the road and in the vicinity of 

 some old homestead. The flowers are 

 the most delicate crimson pink imagi- 

 nable — a tint so light that we might 

 call it a pinkish white. It is well to 

 notice that the joints of the plant have 

 a swollen appearance ; this is a char- 

 acteristic feature of members of the Pink family, 

 to which the soapwort belongs. The plant grows 

 from one to two feet high. 



Bouncing Bet. 



