WILD FLOWERS RED 
scattered along the ascending branches. They emit 
a very unpleasant odour. The lower flowers are seed- 
bearing and, bud-like, they never open. Cancer- 
root is found from August to October, from New 
Brunswick to Florida, and west to Ontario, Michigan, 
Missouri, and Louisiana. 
CARDINAL FLOWER. RED LOBELIA 
Lobélia cardinalis. Lobelia Family. 
The Cardinal Flower is one of the most striking and 
attractive of our showy flowers. It possesses the 
most gorgeous, glowing red colouring imaginable, 
and because of its unsurpassing vividness and bril- 
liancy, its beauty is its undoing. It is a target for every 
ruthless, clasping hand that can reach it, and for this 
reason it is rapidly becoming exterminated. In 
intensity of colouring it is the Scarlet Tanager of 
the wild flowers. The usually single, rather large, 
slightly angular, smoothish stalk is leafy and hollow, 
and grows from two to four and a half feet high, from 
perennial off-shoots. The thin, smooth, or slightly 
hairy leaves are oblong to lance-shaped. They are. 
irregularly toothed, and the upper ones clasp the stalk. 
The colour is dark green. The numerous, deep car- 
dinal flowers are gathered in a loose and often one- 
sided terminal spike. The tube-like corolla, which is 
an inch long, is split down the upper side, and has five 
narrow, pointed, flaring, velvety lobes. These lobes 
are bent at right angles, the three central ones set 
together, and partly separated from the other two; 
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