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Night-Flowering Campion. ^^^^ Twctijhra. 



Gentlemen's Hats (N. H.). 



Found along roadside thickets in July and August. 



The sparingly leafy stalk branches in an angular fashion, and 

 grows from 1 to 3 feet high ; although stout, the branches are slender ; 

 it" is round, hairy, and sticky to the touch ; light green. 



The large leaves are sometimes 3 inches long ; near the foot they 

 are oval in shape with a wavy edge, above they are long and narrow ; 

 the margins are entire, the surface hairy and gummj" to the touch ; 

 green. They completely clasp the stalk and are united in pairs, the 

 pairs being set at right angles to each other. 



The 5 petals of the flower are deeply cleft; where they spread 



from the deep tube-shaped calyx, each is provided with a pair of little 



notched tags, which form a pretty crown about the throat of the 



flower ; the texture of the corolla is thin and fine, and the color is pale 



pink, or white just tinted with rose ; the pale, yellow-green calyx is 5- 



parted and elegantly ornamented with 10 branching ribs, or veins, of a 



darker color ; it is sticky and hairy. The flowers are set on short stems 



in the angles of the leaves, in pairs usually, while a single blossom sits 



on a short stem, in the fork of the branches. _^ 



m 

 After blossoming the seed-box changes its shape to round, and 



becomes large, the calyx-tips folding together over its top, and the 



green pattern of the ribs showing more plainly. There is a faint sweet 



perfume about the flowers which may be only discovered at twilight or 



in a gray morning, for this is a night-blooming plant. 



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