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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. 



Tlie Gentianacea^ is represented in bogs by the common Buckl)ean 

 or Marsh Trefoil {Menyanthes trifoliaki), the only member of its 

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

 ilowers, which are pink in the bud and pinkish white when exj^anded, 

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



TUE ilAKSH TKEFOIL. 



THE Marsh Lousewort. 



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

 is deeply cut into five lobes which are beavitifully fringed above 

 with delicate 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 paluslris) which 

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

 six to eighteen inches high, with 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, 



