PINK 



DEPTFORD PINK. 



Dianthus Armeria. Pink Family. 



One to two feet high. Leaves. Opposite; long and narrow; hairy. 

 Flowers. Pink, with white dots; clustered. Calyx. Five-toothed, cylin- 

 drical; with awl-shaped bracts beneath. Corolla. Of five small petals. 

 Stamens. Ten. Pistil. One, with two styles. 



In July and August we find these little flowers in our Eastern 

 fields. The generic name, which signifies Jove's own flower, 

 hardly applies to these inconspicuous blossoms. Perhaps it was 

 originally bestowed upon D. caryophyllus, a large and fragrant 

 English member of the genus, which was the origin of our gar- 

 den carnation. 



PHILADELPHIA FLEABANE. 



[PI. CI 



Erigeron Philadelphicus. Composite Family. 



Stem. Hairy, leafy. Leaves. Oblong, the upper rather smooth, clasp- 

 ing by a heart-shaped base, almost entire ; the lowest wedge-shaped, toothed. 

 Flcnver- heads. Small, clustered, with numerous very narrow, pinkish ray- 

 flowers and a centre of yellow disk flowers. 



This often attractive member of the fleabane group is com* 

 monly found in moist ground from June to August. 



WILD MORNING GLORY. HEDGE BINDWEED. 



Convolvulus Americanus. Convolvulus Family. 



Stem. Twining or trailing. Leaves. Somewhat arrow-shaped. Flow- 

 ers. Pink. Calyx. Of five sepals enclosed in two broad leafy bracts. 

 Corolla. Five-lobed ; bell-shaped. Stamens. Five. Pistil. One, with 

 two stigmas. 



Many an unsightly heap of rubbish left by the roadside is 

 hidden by the delicate pink bells of the hedge bindweed, which 

 again will clamber over the thickets that line the streams and 

 about the tumbled stone-wall that marks the limit of the pasture. 



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