272 PLANTS GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 



FIRE=WEED. GREAT OR SPIKED WILLOW=HERB. 



CJiani(xnerio)i august if blimn. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Evening pri}7irose. Magenia. Scentless. New England south- June-September. 



■ward and westward. 



Flowers: large ; growing in a long terminal raceme which is slightly nod- 

 ding. Calyx: deeply four-lobed. Corolla: of four petals with short claws. 

 Sta?neiis: eight. Pistil: one; stigma, four-lobed. Pods:\ox\^\ narrow, the 

 seeds having white, silky tufts. Leaves: alternate; lanceolate ; almost linear; 

 willowy. Stem : at most eight feet high ; erect ; leafy ; smooth. 



Dame Nature, with her wonderfully impartial heart, has pro- 

 vided this handsome plant to grow abundantly in soil that has 

 been burned over and therefore made black and unsightly to 

 the eye. It also strays into dry meadows and peeps out on the 

 roadsides. It is a conspicuous plant with deep hued, delicate 

 blossoms which show their kinship to the evening primrose. 



PASSION FLOWER. {Plate CXLI.) 

 Passiflbra zncarndta. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Passion Jlo7uer. Purple. Faintly ^fragrant. Virginia and Kentucky Summer. 



southward. 



Flowers: solitary ; axillary ; frequently having three bracts underneath. 

 Calyx: tubular ; of five, or more divisions, highly-coloured inside. Corolla: 

 of five, or more petals which rest upon the throat of the calyx and appear to 

 form a background for the heavy circular fringe made by numerous outreach- 

 ing rays. Stamens: five, with long versatile anthers, their filaments united to a 

 rod-like stalk that upholds the ovary. Styles: three ; spreading ; club- 

 shaped. Leaves : alternate ; deeply three-cleft ; serrated. Stem : woody ; 

 branching ; climbing by means of axillary tendrils. 



It is in the dense forests of Brazil that the passion flowers are 

 seen in all the majesty of their native loveliness. Their hue is 

 brighter there than elsewhere, the flowers are larger and they 

 have a rare fragrance that is lost to a great extent in the North 

 American species. There, the delicate, curious blossom first 

 attracted the attention of the early Roman Catholic mission- 

 aries, who, with fire and sword, were spreading the religion of 

 love and gentleness. To them, it seemed that the flower held 

 before their vision all the dreadful details of the crucifixion. 



