72 PLANTS GROWING IN MUD. 



white beard. Stamens: five. Pistil: or\e. Stigma : i\vo-\oh&6.. Leaves: three 

 oblong leaflets borne on a long petiole. Rooisiock : creeping. 



Hidden away in some secluded corner of a swamp we may 

 chance upon the lovely white buckbean. Its racemes of star- 

 like faces, covered with the soft fringe, have a sweet expression 

 that is most attractive. 



SEA=PINK. 



Sabbdtia stellaris. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Gentian. Deep pink. Scentless. Mass. southward. August. 



Flowers: large ; solitary; terminal on the ends of the flower-stalks. Calyx : 

 of five-parted linear lobes. Corolla : wheel-shaped ; with five, deeply-parted 

 lobes. Stamens : five. Pistil : one ; style, two-cleft. Leaves : opposite ; 

 lanceolate ; becoming linear as they ascend the stem. Stem : branching ; 

 slender. 



We may picture to ourselves the sea-pinks by the side of a 

 green marsh with the salt breezes blowing about us. There, 

 spread out in brilliantly-coloured masses of great extent, they 

 form a little world by themselves, — living and weaving out their 

 own destiny. A bright, cheery lot they are too, with round yellow 

 eyes that look at us frankly and without showing the slightest 

 signs of drowsiness. There is very little sleep allowed in their 

 households, hardly even forty winks ; and yet they do not want 

 for beauty. They are always fresh and bright and wide-awake. 



S. dadecaudra, or large sabbatia, is a beautiful species, whose 

 blooms are rosy pink, or white. The corolla is fuller than that 

 of the preceding flower and often as much as two and a 

 quarter inches broad. On the borders of brackish ponds, es- 

 pecially in southern New Jersey, it is found in great abundance. 



S. campatiul^ta (Plate XXXI.) is readily known by the length 

 of its sepals, which is unusually great, equal, in fact, to that of 

 the petals. 



Throughout Massachusetts, and especially about Plymouth, 

 the sabbatia is held in great admiration, almost reverence. It is 

 called the rose of Plymouth, and it is generally believed that its 

 generic name is associated with the pilgrims having first beheld 

 it on the sabbath day. Facts, however, that are often just a trifle 



