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loves a blossom of ' " any colour at all so long as it's red." 

 It is a plant extremely attractive to bees, butterflies, and 

 birds, which come to sip its sweets. 



WILD BLEEDING-HEART 



Dicentra formosa. Fumitory Family 



Stems: from the apex of thick, almost naked, creeping rootstocks. 

 Leaves: twice or thrice ternately compound, the ultimate divisions nar- 

 row and incisely pinnatifid. Flowers: pale magenta, in compound ra- 

 cemes at summit of scapes ; corolla ovate-cordate, with connivent spurs ; 

 petals united up to and above the middle. 



This plant resembles, in miniature, the lovely pink and 

 white Bleeding-heart so popular in old-fashioned gardens; 

 but its dull magenta-pink flowers are not nearly so attrac- 

 tive in appearance as those of its beautiful cultivated cousin. 

 The only charm of the wild species lies in the grace of its 

 slender stems, which bear numerous pendent heart-shaped 

 blossoms along their drooping lengths, and its finely dis- 

 sected foliage. 



Dicentra uniflora, or One-flowered Bleeding-heart, has 

 soft green leaves which are ternately divided, the three to 

 seven divisions pinnatifid into a few spatulate lobes. The 

 scapes grow only three to five inches high from a close bun- 

 dle of spindle-shaped and perpendicular fleshy tubers; they 

 are bracted, and one, or rarely tw r o-flowered. The creamy 

 pink flowers have two small scale-like sepals, and the two 

 outer petals are gibbous-saccate at the base, their recurving 

 tips much longer than the body, while the small hollowed 

 tips of the two inner spoon-shaped petals are united at the 

 apex, and form the cavity containing the anthers and stigma. 



