WILD FLOWERS PINK 



bread made from flour containing the seeds which have 

 been ground up with the wheat, and its continued use 

 will cause serious chronic disorders. Low grades 

 of flour often contain large quantities of Corn Cockle 

 seeds, which can easily be detected by the presence 

 of the black, roughened scales of the seed cases. Sev- 

 eral machines have been invented for removing these 

 dangerous seeds from the wheat, but as yet, none has 

 been altogether successful. In New Hampshire, Corn 

 Cockle is known as Old Maid's Pink, and in Nova 

 Scotia it is called Mullein Pink, while the American 

 farmer ever longs for a name that will fully express 

 his contempt for it. The Latin name, Agrostemma, 

 signifies "Crown-of-the-Field." 



WILD PINK. CATCHFLY 



Silene pennsylvanica. Pink Family. 



What the Wild Pink lacks in height, it more than 

 makes up in a wealth of lively colour which gleams 

 from the crevices of rocky banks in dry, open woods 

 during May. It is a low, tufted perennial, growing 

 only from four to ten inches high. The upper part of 

 the plant is sticky and hairy. The hairy edged foot 

 leaves are long and narrow, becoming wider toward 

 the suddenly pointed apex, and tapering at the base 

 into broad stems. The smaller upper leaves are seated 

 directly upon the stalk in pairs and are pointed-oblong 

 or lance-shaped. The beautiful pink flowers are an 

 inch broad, and several are gathered in a rather broad, 

 flat-topped, terminal cluster, forming an attractive, 



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