PINK TO MAGENTA 265 



CORN COCKLE; CORN ROSE: Corn or Red 

 Campion: Crown of the Field. 



Agrostemma Githago. 

 Pink Family. July — Sept. 



Found in grain fields, dry, waste places 

 throughout the United States. Introduced 

 from Europe. 

 Flowers — Magenta, 5 divisions, the narrow lobes 

 of the outer divisions exceeding the 

 inner ones in length; solitary, terminat- 

 ing stems 1—3 feet high. 

 Leaves — Opposite, seated on stem, long, narrow, 

 erect. Plant stem covered with fine, 

 silky hairs. 



SWAMP ROSE MALLOW; MALLOW ROSE. 



Hibiscus Moscheutos. 

 Mallow Family. July — Sept. 



A shrub-like plant 4-6 feet high, found in 

 marshes, on lake-shores, river-banks. Massa- 

 chusetts and southward ; usually near the coast ; 

 locally in the interior. 

 Flowers — Pink or white, 4-7 inches across, 5 di- 

 visions, conspicuously veined; flowers 

 borne singly, or in scant clusters at the 

 summit of the stems. 

 Leaves — Egg-shaped, pointed, toothed, densely 

 white-woolly beneath. Lower leaves 

 and sometimes the upper ones 3-lobed. 



