224 A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



Flowers % in. long or less ; salt-marsh plant 



Salt-marsh Gerardia no. 685 



Flowers long stalked 



Flowers about ^ in. long, usually spotted Gerardia no. 686 



Flowers Yz in. long or less, not spotted Gerardia no. 687 



684. Purple Gerardia. Agalinis purpurea. A slender, 

 branched, spreading herb, 1-2^ ft. high. Leaves 1-13^ in. 

 long, about %o i^i- wide. Flowers in an open, sparse cluster, 

 or solitary, rose-purple, almost stalkless, i in. long, or 

 slightly more, nearly as wide. In open moist places. Maine 

 to Florida, and westward. September. Fig. 684. 



685. Salt-marsh Gerardia. Agalinis maritima. Very like 

 No. 684, but the flowers generally smaller and the foliage 

 often dark purplish. In salt marshes. Maine to Florida. Au- 

 gust. A related species, A, paupcrcula, has the inside of the 

 flower throat hairy. It grows in bogs and meadows from 

 Nova Scotia to Tenn., and westward. 



686. Gerardia. ^(/a/mw tenuifolia. This resembles No. 684, 

 but its flowers are distinctly long-stalked. Corolla rose purple, 

 usually spotted, very rarely white, about }i in. long. In dry 

 places. Quebec to Georgia, and westward. September. Very 

 common. Fig. 686. 



687. Gerardia. Agalinis parvifolia. A delicate slender plant, 

 8-16 in. high, its leaves almost thread like. Flowers long 

 stalked, very like those in No. 686, but smaller and un- 

 spotted. In dry places. Often very common along the coast. 

 Mass. to Florida and Louisiana. September. 



688. Prostrate or low plants, not usually over 8-10 in. high, 

 mostly much less. 



Leaves stalkless, or merely narrowed towards the base. 



Flowers terminal Bluets no. 692 



Flowers not terminal, i or 2 from the leaf joints 



Scarlet Pimpernel no. 691 



Leaves with an obvious stalk, and an abruptly broadened blade; 

 flowers in clusters of 2. 

 Stalk of the flower cluster as long as, or shorter than the 



flowers Partridge-berry no. 689 



Stalk of the flower cluster 5 times as long as the flower 



Twin-flower no. 690 



