WILD FLOWERS pink 



short, slender stems. The large, five-parted, green, 

 tubular calyx is guarded by four narrow, stiff, 

 sharply toothed and pointed bracts, which give the 

 flowering head a crowded and bayonneted appear- 

 ance. The bud reminds one of an oat. The oblong 

 petals have finely notched tips. They are deep 

 pink in colour, and the surface is minutely speckled 

 with whitish dots. The generic name, Dianthus, 

 signifying Jove's own flower, was applied to the 

 Pinks by Theophrastus, the Greek philosopher, 

 who greatly admired their exquisite fragrance and 

 beauty. This Pink is found from Maine to Vir- 

 ginia, and westward to Michigan and Iowa, dur- 

 ing July and August. i./i 



PINK CORYDALIS 



Corydalis sempervirens. Fumitory Family. 



Although the tall, branching growth of the Pink 

 Corydalis does not compare satisfactorily with that 

 of the low, clustered, and single-stemmed grouping 

 of the Dutchman's Breeches, the peculiarly flattened 

 corolla of the flowers suggests their kinship. At sight 

 the dangling flowers of this species appear to be incom- 

 plete, and one fancies that there should be more of 

 them. They look, for instance, as if they had been 

 originally something like those of the Dutchman's 

 Breeches, but that some one had cut them all in two, 

 and that only a single part, or "leg," had survived the 

 operation. They seem to rest on the point of their 

 little stems like a tiny flock of fairyland swallows, 



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