PINK WILD FLOWERS 
sickness; but happily it refers to an English species, 
and not to ours. The Wild Bergamot blossoms 
from June to September, and is found from Maine 
and Ontario south to the Gulf States, and west to 
Minnesota and Colorado. 
SNAKE HEAD. TURTLE HEAD. COD HEAD. 
SHELL-FLOWER. BITTER-HERB 
BALMONY 
Chelone glabra. Figwort Family. 
This dweller of wet situations takes most of its 
common names from the fancied resemblance of 
its flowers to the various subjects which it seems 
to have suggested. It is a rather common and 
familiar perennial herb, growing from one to three 
feet high. The leaves are said to be tonic, and to 
have been used as a remedy for liver complaints. 
The leafy, hollow stem is sometimes branched, and 
is erect, smooth, and square, with two opposite 
sides grooved. The sharply toothed, lance-shaped 
leaves taper to a long point, and are narrowed at 
the base. ‘They are set upon the stalk in alter- 
nating, opposite pairs, with short stems, and their 
surface is creased with recurved veins. The large 
flowers are white, usually tinged with pink, and are 
closely crowded in a dense terminal cluster. The 
irregular corolla is broadly tubular and two-lipped. 
The broad, arched upper lip is creased and notched in 
the middle. The lower lip is three-lobed at the 
apex, with the middle lobe smallest. The throat is 
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