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FLOWERS OF THE BOGS AND MARSHES 



The stems are prostrate, ascending at the tip and rooting at 

 intervals, creeping, numerous, round or square, smooth, branched 

 with purplish joints. The leaves are opposite, nearly stalkless or but 

 shortly stalked, small, egg-shaped, entire, smooth. The flowers are 

 pink, large, borne on simple, erect, finally turned-back flower-stalks, 

 i -flowered, in the axils of the leaves. The flowers are bell-shaped, 

 large, with dark veins. The calyx is shorter than the corolla and 

 clotted with red. The corolla is wheel-shaped or funnel-shaped. The 



BOG PIMPERNEL (Anapa 



ella, Murr.) 



Photo Hinkins St Son 



anther-stalks are connected below. The capsule opens by a transverse 

 fissure in the centre. The cells where the capsule opens are linear and 

 loose, but larger, more rounded elsewhere. The seeds are brown, 

 flattened on one side, and toothed. 



Bog Pimpernel flowers from August to September. The height is 

 about 3 in. It is perennial, propagated by division, and worth culti- 

 vating. 



The flower is similar in form to that of Scarlet Pimpernel, but red 

 or pink with darker veins. The anther-stalks are united at the base 

 forming a cylinder, the flower campanulate, and rather large, the corolla 

 is wheel-shaped and erect, and the anther-stalks are very hairy, filling 

 the corolla, to prevent the honey from being spoilt by rain. The 



