PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 117 



MARSH ST. JOHN'S WORT (Elodes campanulata) . St. 



John's Wort family. 



Ht. i ft. or over; flowers in small clusters, axillary 

 and terminal; petals oblong; leaves without stalks, 

 sometimes clasping. Swamps. Summer. 



BOUNCING BET (Saponaria officinalis} . Pink family. 

 Tall and stout herb with large flowers, terminal; 

 petals long, slender and clawed; leaves pointed, egg- 

 shaped to lance-shaped. Roadsides, etc. Summer. 



Fig. 58. 



Obedient- plant (Physostegta Virginiana). 



9. Same as 8, but not with 5 petals. 



PALE LAUREL (Kalmia glauca). Heath family. 



Ht. i ft.; shrub; flowers few in corymb at end of 

 stem (each about \ in. broad); calyx 5-parted, 

 corolla wheel-shaped, 5-lobed; leaves nearly with- 

 out stalks, oblong, whitish beneath with edges 

 rolled back. Bogs and low mountains. Spring, 

 early summer. 



