PINK 



vided leaves would at once correct such an error. The plant is 

 a decorative one when covered with its showy blossoms, con- 

 stantly arresting our attention along the wooded roadsides in 

 June and July. 



PALE CORYDALIS. 



Corydalis glauca. Fumitory Family. 



Stem. Six inches to two feet high. Leaves. Pale, divided into delicate 

 leaflets. Flowers. Pink and yellow, in loose clusters. Calyx. Of two 

 small, scale-like sepals. Corolla. Pink, tipped with yellow ; closed and 

 flattened, of four petals, with a short spur at the base of the upper petal. 

 Stamens. Six, maturing before the pistil, thus avoiding self-fertilization. 

 Pistil. One. 



From the rocky clefts in the summer woods springs the pale 

 corydalis, its graceful foliage dim with a whitish bloom, and its 

 delicate' rosy, yellow-tipped flowers betraying by their odd flat 

 corollas their kinship with the Dutchman's breeches and squir- 

 rel corn of the early year, as well as with the bleeding hearts of 

 the garden. Thoreau assigns them to the middle of May, and 

 says they are " rarely met with," which statement does not coin- 

 cide with the experience of those who find the rocky woodlands 

 each summer abundantly decorated with their fragile clusters. 



The generic name, Corydalis, is the ancient Greek title for the 

 crested lark, and said to refer to the crested seeds of this genus. 

 The specific title, glauca, refers to the pallor of leaves and stem. 



The golden corydalis, C. aurea, is found on rocky banks 

 somewhat westward. 



COMMON MILKWEED. 



Asclepias Cornuti. Milkweed Family. 



Stem. Tall, stout, downy, with a milky juice. Leaves. Generally 

 opposite or whorled, the upper sometimes scattered, large, oblong, pale, 

 minutely downy underneath. Flowers. Dull, purplish-pink, clustered at 

 the summit and along the sides of the stem. (These flowers are too difficult 

 to be successfully analyzed by the non-botanist.) Calyx. Five-parted, the 

 divisions small and reflexed. Corolla. Deeply five-parted, the divisions 

 reflexed ; above them a crown of five hooded nectaries, each containing an 

 incurved horn. Stamens. Five, inserted on the base of the corolla, united 

 with each other and enclosing the pistils. Pistils. Properly two, enclosed 

 by the stamens, surmounted by a large five-angled disk. Fruit. Two pods, 

 one of which is large and full of silky-tufted seeds, the other often stunted. 



This is probably the commonest representative of this strik- 

 ing and beautiful native family. The tall, stout stems, large, 



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