WILD FLOWERS PINK 
short, slender stems. The large, five-parted, green, 
tubular calyx is guarded by four narrow, stiff, 
sharply toothed and pointed bracts, which give the 
flowering head a crowded and bayonneted appear- 
ance. The bud reminds one of an oat. The oblong 
petals have finely notched tips. They are deep 
pink in colour, and the surface is minutely speckled 
with whitish dots. The generic name, Dianthus, 
signifying Jove’s own flower, was applied to the 
Pinks by Theophrastus, the Greek philosopher, 
who greatly admired their exquisite fragrance and 
beauty. This Pink is found from Maine to Vir- 
ginia, and westward to Michigan and Iowa, dur- 
ing July and August. 
PINK CORYDALIS 
Corydalis sempérvirens. Fumitory Family. 
Although the tall, branching growth of the Pink 
Corydalis does not compare satisfactorily with that 
of the low, clustered, and single-stemmed grouping 
of the Dutchman’s Breeches, the peculiarly flattened 
corolla of the flowers suggests their kinship. At sight 
the dangling flowers of this species appear to be incom- 
plete, and one fancies that there should be more of 
them. ‘They look, for instance, as if they had been 
originally something like those of the Dutchman’s 
Breeches, but that some one had cut them all in two, 
and that only a single part, or “leg,”’ had survived the 
operation. They seem to rest on the point of their 
little stems like a tiny flock of fairyland swallows, 
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