PINK 



SALT MARSH FLEABANE. 



Pluchea camphor ata. Composite Family (p. 13). 



Stem. Two to five feet high. Leaves. Pale, thickish, oblong or lance- 

 shaped, toothed. Flower-heads. Pink, small, in flat-topped clusters, com- 

 posed entirely of tubular flowers. 



In the salt marshes where we find the starry sea pinks and 

 the feathery sea lavender, we notice a pallid-looking plant whose 

 pink flower-buds are long in opening. It is late summer or 

 autumn before the salt marsh fleabane is fairly in blossom. 

 There is a strong fragrance to the plant which hardly suggests 

 camphor, despite its specific title. 



HAIRY WILLOW-HERB. 



Epilobitim hirsutum. Evening Primrose Family. 



Three to five feet high. Stem. Densely hairy, stout, branching. 

 Leaves. Mostly opposite, lance-oblong, finely toothed. Flower. Purplish, 

 pink, small, in the axils of the upper leaves, or in a leafy, short raceme. 

 Calyx. Four or five-parted. Corolla. Of four petals. Stamens. Eight. 

 Pistil. One, with a four-parted stigma. 



The hairy willow-herb is found in waste places, blossoming 

 in midsummer. It is an emigrant from Europe. 



FIREWEED. GREAT WILLOW-HERB. 



Epilobit4m angustifolium. Evening Primrose Family. 



Stem. Four to seven feet high. Leaves. Scattered, lance-shaped, 

 willow-like. Flowers. Purplish-pink, large, in a long raceme. Calyx. 

 Four-cleft. Corolla. Of four petals. Stamens. Eight. Pistil. One, 

 with a four-lobed stigma. 



In midsummer this striking plant begins to mass its deep- 

 hued blossoms along the roadsides and low meadows. It is sup- 

 posed to flourish with especial abundance in land that has newly 

 been burned over; hence, its common name of fireweed. Its 

 willow-like foliage has given it its other English title. The 

 likeness between the blossoms of this plant and those of the 

 evening primrose betray their kinship. When the stamens of 

 the fireweed first mature and discharge their pollen the still im- 

 mature style is curved backward and downward with its stigmas 

 closed. Later it straightens and lengthens to its full dimensions, 



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