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five pointed sepals, and the corolla of five indented petals. 

 The whole plant is covered with fine gray hairs and has an 

 extremely strong smell, caused by a resinous secretion. Its 

 leaves are roundish in form and deeply cleft ; the long stalks 

 are brittle and quite red where exposed to the sunlight. 

 Sometimes the flowers are white. 



Geranium Bicknellii, or Bicknell's Geranium, resembles 

 the preceding species, but is a taller, more slender plant. 

 The leaves are angulate in outline, the segments being nar- 

 rowly oblong and deeply cleft. The pale pinkish flowers 

 grow in loose clusters, and the beaks are not so long-pointed 

 as those of the Carolina Crane's Bill. 



GREAT WILLOW-HERB 



Epilobium angustifolium. Evening Primrose Family 



Stems: erect, simple or branched, glabrous. Leaves: alternate, lan- 

 ceolate, entire, pale beneath, acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 thin. Flowers: magenta, in terminal spike-like racemes; petals four, 

 entire, spreading. 



The tall strong stems of this striking plant rise to an 

 average height of three feet, though frequently taller, and 

 terminate in long racemes of bright purplish flowers, in 

 which the number four is conspicuous, each one having a 

 very long calyx-tube divided into four segments and four 

 large, rounded, wide-open petals. The four-cleft stigma 

 at the apex of the long style is extremely prominent. The 

 mid-ribs of the leaves, the stems, the buds, and the calyx- 

 tubes are all a dull red ; and when the seed ripens the long 

 narrow vessels burst open lengthwise and send afloat in the 

 air clouds of white silky tufts, to each of which is attached 

 a seed that ultimately falls to earth seeking some new spot 

 favourable to its development. 



