PINK WILD FLOWERS 



green on both sides, and are set on short, hairy stems. 

 The margin is wavy, and the surface is slightly rough. 

 New leaves do not put forth until after the flowering 

 season. The delicate, waxy flowers are rather large, 

 and are closely clustered on the ends of the branches. 

 Five rounded points spread from the tubular corolla, 

 which is set in a small, five-parted, leafy, green calyx 

 on a tiny stem. The pistil and ten yellowish stamens 

 may be seen at the throat of the white or pinkish white 

 blossom. The flowers are exquisitely fragrant, and 

 when one considers their cool, damp surroundings so 

 very early in the spring, they are exceedingly enticing. 

 The Trailing Arbutus is found from March to May, 

 from Newfoundland to the Northwest Territory and 

 south to Florida, Kentucky, and Michigan. 



SHOOTING STAR. AMERICAN COWSLIP. 

 PRIDE OF OHIO 



Dodecatheon Meadia. Primrose Family. 



The pert, nodding flowers of this handsome per- 

 ennial decorate the moist cliffs and ridges in open 

 woodlands, and also the prairies, during April and 

 May, from Pennsylvania to Georgia, and west to 

 Manitoba and Texas. The flowering stalk rises one 

 or two feet high from a basal cluster of pointed oblong 

 leaves, which taper into narrow, winged stems. The 

 rootstock is stout and fibrous. Several showy, purplish 

 pink or white flowers are gathered into a loose ter- 

 minal arrangement. These hang from slender, curv- 

 ing stems which spring from the tip of the stalk. The 



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