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base. Common in salt marshes. New England to Florida. 

 August. Fig. 417. 



418. Marsh Pink. Sabbatia dodecandra. Similar to 417, but 

 with narrower stem leaves, and with 8 to 12 petals. In or 

 near salt marshes. Mass. to No. Carolina, often very com- 

 mon. August. 



419. Wild Ipecac. Tithymalopsis Ipccacuanhae. {Euphorbia 

 Ipecaciianhae.) (Euphorbiaceac.) A deeply rooted perennial, 

 the root often descending 3 ft. in pure sand. Leaves the 

 most variable in size, shape and color of any wild plant, — 

 always opposite, without teeth and with a milky juice. They 

 may vary from round to thread-like, and from brilliant red, 

 through orange or yellow, to green. Flowers solitary, on a 

 long stalk from the leaf bases, scarcely ^4 i"- across, pinkish 

 purple. In sand. Conn, to Florida, near the coast, and in 

 locally sandy places in the interior. June-Sept. Fig. 419. See 

 also 252, 268, 278, 447, and 528-530. 



420. PINK FAMILY. CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 



Annual or perennial, often weedy herbs, with opposite, 

 toothless, leaves and swollen joints, like the carnation of the 

 florists. There are usually 5 sepals, united into a tube which 



