HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



May the water is drained off. The picking commences in 

 September, before heavy frost, and men, women, and chil- 

 dren are employed, and paid by the crate or bushel. Build- 

 ings are erected near the bogs, in which the fruit is separated 

 from leaves and twigs. The geographical range of the cran- 

 berry is very wide, from north latitude 38 to 6o°, and cov- 

 ering all North America east of the Mississippi. (See illus- 

 tration, p. 279.) 



Flowering Moss. Pyxie 

 Pyxidanthera barbulata. — Family, Diapensia. Color, white or 

 pink. (See White Flowers, p. 114.) 



Common Pimpernel 

 Anagittis arvensis. — Family, Primrose. Color, called scarlet; 

 rarely white. Calyx and corolla, regularly 5-parted. Stamens, 

 5, their filaments purple-bearded. Pistil, 1. Flowers, small, 

 wheel-shaped, on long peduncles, single, in the upper axils. 

 Stems, low, spreading. Annuals. Leaves, opposite or whorled, 

 sessile, ovate, entire. May to August. 



The petals close upon the approach of a shower, from 

 which-one of its popular names, poor man's weatherglass, is 

 derived. They also close at night, and soon after being 

 plucked. I know of no other flower tinged with just this 

 shade of red. It is often called scarlet pimpernel, but to 

 me it is terra-cotta. It is a dear little plant, often dotting 

 the ground with color. I have picked it in sprays 20 inches 

 long. A variety, cacririca, has blue petals. Open woods or 

 low cultivated grounds. (See illustration, p. 281.) 



Sea Milkwort 



Glaux maritima. — Family, Primrose. Color, pink or white- 

 Calyx, tubular, 5-cleft, bell-shaped, giving the color to the flower. 

 Petals, none. Stamens, 5, connected with the base of the calyx, 

 alternate with the lobes. Leaves, fleshy, entire, sessile, opposite, 

 linear, obtuse. Low, fleshy plants, much branched, the branches 

 weak, drooping or prostrate, 2 to 8 inches high. Flowers, small, 

 in the axils. June to August. 



Sea - beaches, New Jersey northward, also in subsaline 

 soil from Minnesota westward. More common on the 

 Pacific than the Atlantic coast. 



Shooting Star. American Cowslip 



Dodecatheon Meadia. — Family, Primrose. Color, deep pink, 

 rarely white. Calyx and corolla, 5-cleft, the divisions of the corolla 



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