WILD FLOWERS PINE 
bread made from flour containing the seeds which have 
been ground up with the wheat, and its continued use 
will cause serious chronic disorders. Low grades 
of flour often contain large quantities of Corn Cockle 
seeds, which can easily be detected by the presence 
of the black, roughened scales of the seed cases. Sev- 
eral machines have been invented for removing these 
dangerous seeds from the wheat, but as yet, none has 
been altogether successful. In New Hampshire, Corn 
Cockle is known as Old Maid’s Pink, and in Nova 
Scotia it is called Mullein Pink, while the American 
farmer ever longs for a name that will fully express 
his contempt for it. The Latin name, Agrostemma, 
signifies “ Crown-of-the-Field.” 
WILD PINK. CATCHFLY. 
Siléne pennsyluanica. Pink Family. 
What the Wild Pink lacks in height, it more than 
makes up in a wealth of lively colour which gleams 
from the crevices of rocky banks in dry, open woods 
during May. It is a low, tufted perennial, growing 
only from four to ten inches high. The upper part of 
the plant is sticky and hairy. The hairy edged foot 
leaves are long and narrow, becoming wider toward 
the suddenly pointed apex, and tapering at the base 
into broad stems. The smaller upper leaves are seated 
directly upon the stalk in pairs and are pointed-oblong 
or lance-shaped. The beautiful pink flowers are an 
inch broad, and several are gathered in a rather broad, 
flat-topped, terminal cluster, forming an attractive, 
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