94 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 



SMALL WILLOW HERB. 



Epilbbium coloratum. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Evening primrose. Pale magenta. Scentless. General. Summer. 



Flcnvers : small ; slightly nodding ; growing in terminal corymbs. Calyx : of 

 four parted sepals. Corolla : of four spreading petals notched at the apex. 

 Stamens : eight. Pistil : one; stigma, club-shaped. Seeds : tufted with brown 

 hairs. Leaves : opposite ; lanceolate ; toothed and veined with purple. Stem : 

 tall; rather smooth. 



We can hardly venture into any meadow during the summer 

 that is moist enough to wet our feet without seeing this little 

 herb. Its relative, the great willow herb, is found mostly along 

 the roadsides and on clearings that have been burned over. 



HAIRY WILLOW HERB. 



Epilbbium hirsutum. 



The hairiness of this plant serves to distinguish it from the 

 preceding one. It also grows to a greater height and its petals 

 are a lovely, rosy pink. The uncultivated, moist soil of waste 

 places is its favourite dwelling place. 



COMMON FRINGE TREE. 



Chiondnthus Virginica. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Olive. Snow white. Scentless. Penn. southward. Late spring and early summer. 



Flowers : growing in loose panicles. Calyx: very small ; tubular. Corolla: 

 of four petals, three quarters of an inch long, which barely unite at the base. 

 Stamens : two ; very short. Pistil : one. Friiit : bluish purple ; glaucous. Leaves: 

 large ; ovate ; the lower part downy. A shrub, or low branching tree. 



The pure loveliness of this shrub is one of the things that 

 must be seen and come into close contact with before it can be 

 fully appreciated. When along the river banks the cool 

 zephyrs play through its snow-white, slender petals and we sit 

 down beside it ; we long for its soft, gentle swaying never to 

 cease, and think lovingly of our castles in the air and the fairy 

 tales that enchanted us in childhood. 



