232 WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 
(B) Write a short description of The Closed Gentian 
for your wild flower booklets, following this 
outline: : 
Stem. 
Leaves. 
Flowers. 
Calyx. 
Corolla. 
Stamens. 
Pistil. 
Insect visitors. 
How unwelcome visitors are excluded. 
(C) Illustrate your essay by drawing one or more 
of the flowers as seen upon the plant, and a 
sectional view of a single flower. 
(D) Read the account of the Closed Gentian on pages 
92 to 94 of Ten New England Blossoms and 
their Insect Visitors. Read also the delightful 
little story by Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson, 
entitled ‘‘ The Little Shet-up Posy ” in hér book, 
Story-Tell Lib. 
FrinceD GENTIAN: 
(A) 1. In what sort of localities does the Fringed 
Gentian grow? 
2. How is it adapted to pollination by bumble- 
bees? 
3. Is the color of the flower a sky-blue or a 
violet-blue? 
(B) Make a careful drawing of stem, leaf and flower, 
and copy into your booklet the verse by the poet 
Byrant printed on page 230. 
(C) I£ you have access to the bound volumes of the 
Garden Magazine read the account of the suc- 
cessful growing of the Fringed Gentian as a 
cultivated plant, on pages 210 to 212 of volume 
two. 
