WILD FLOWERS RED 
and so wetting my feet. I once sat accidentally down 
on such a bed of pitcher plants, and I found an uncom- 
monly wet seat where I expected a dry one.” The 
plant exhibits many variations of colour, from deep 
purple to pink, and from dark green to greenish yel- 
low; and, as Alice Lounsberry says: “from a dis- 
tance they appear like the mystic blending of colours 
in a Persian rug.” The Huntsman’s Cup is said to 
have been so named because hunters used them to 
drink from, but it seems more likely that it applies 
to its resemblance to the old-fashioned powder horn of 
Davy Crockett’s time. The Pitcher-plant is found in 
peat-bogs and in wet, springy, mossy places, often 
along railroad tracks, during May and June. The 
pitchers are often found during the late fall and win- 
ter, with the water in them, frozen solid. They range 
from Labrador to the Canadian Rockies, and south 
to Minnesota, Kentucky, and Florida. 
GROUNDNUT 
Apios tuberdsa. Pea Family. 
All wise, happy-go-lucky: country youngsters know 
where and when to root out the edible pear-shaped 
tubers of this beautiful climbing vine, which is famil- 
iarly known to them as the Wild Bean. During the 
early Colonial days, this tuberous root is said to have 
been used as a substitute for bread. The slender, 
twining stem has a milky juice, and grows several feet 
in length. From five to seven broad, toothless, lance- 
shaped leaflets, with their acute apex and rounding 
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