THE LOGANIA FAMILY. 



PINK-ROOT. INDIAN PINK. 



Spigelia Maryldndica. 



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Flcnuers : showy; growing in a terminal, one-sided spike Calyx: five-parted, 

 the divisions pointed, linear. Corolla: tubular, long, with five spreading l(jl)cs. 

 Stamens: five, their anthers linear. Style: exserted. Stii^ma : small, obtuse. 

 Leaves : opposite with small stipules ; ovate or ovate-lanceolate, p(jinied at the 

 apex and sessile, entire; nerved; almost smooth above and i)ubescent along the 

 veins underneath ; thin. Stem : ten inches to two feet high; ascending; simple or 

 branched, four-angled ; smooth. 



Although for months past the spring has been showing various forms of 

 life and unfolding many blossoms, the pink-root appears gay and beautiful 

 as it opens just on the border of summer. It has none of the tenderness, 

 the timidity of very early blossoms ; it rather strikes a note to key our expec- 

 tation of the gorgeousness of hibiscuses, milkweeds and lobelias which crown 

 with glory the later season. Mostly it grows in woods, becoming at times 

 quite high, and often responds to the seemingly inappropriate name of worm- 

 grass, although for the very purpose of destroying worms it is in popular use. 



THE GENTIAN FAniLY. 



Gentiandcccc. 



In our species herbs with bitter., colourless Juice and opposite or rarely 

 whor/ed, entire leaves, and ivhich bear regular., perfect Jlowers^ either 

 solitary or groiuing in termi/ial or axillary clusters. 



BOYKIN'S riARSH PINK. (^Plate CXLII.) 

 Sabbdtia Boyklni. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Gentian. Deep rose-pink or ivkite. Scentless. Georgia to Alabama. J>"'y- 



Flowers : one and a half to two inches in diameter; solitary, or a few growing in 

 a terminal, sessile cluster. Calyx : campanulate with oblong-lanceolate, pointed 

 lobes. Corolla : one and a half inches wide; wheel-shaped with eight to twelve 

 large rounded petals. Stamens: eight to twelve inserted on the corolKi-tubc 

 with deep yellow, conspicuous anthers. Filaments : short. Style: two-cleft, the 

 divisions recurved. Leaves: those of the base tufted, lanceolate-oblong or sp.itu- 

 late and tapering into margined petioles ; those of the stem ovatc-lancce)latc, .so- 



