PAINTED CUP; INDIAN PAINT 

 BRUSH. 



Although, at a casual glance^ one 

 would not suspect it^ this plant be- 

 longs to the Figwort Family, as well 

 as the species of toadflax and the 

 mulleins. The reddish stem rises 

 from a basal tuft of leaves and is al- 

 so set with three to five-cleft leaves. 

 The tiny greenish-yellow flowers at 

 the summit of the stem are concealed 

 by scarlet tipped, three-cleft bracts, j j 

 Depending upon the nature of the 

 soil and the amount of light received, j 

 the bracts are sometimes yellow-tip- B 

 ped and less often may be wholly B 

 green. Painted Cup grows in moist ife 

 sandy soil in meadows or thickets and is quite local in its 

 distribution. It is somewhat parasitic in its habits, its roots 

 often attaching themselves to those of other nearby plants 

 and stealing some of the juices they are storing up for their 

 own use. 



FALSE FOXGLOVE is a very pretty plant growing in 

 dry sandy thickets or woods, that has similar parasitic ten- 

 dencies, attaching its roots by little disks or suckers to the 

 fine roots of trees or those of other plants. The beautiful 

 pale yellow flowers, arranged in pairs loosely along the 

 upper part of the stem, are nearly two inches in length. 

 The corolla is bell-shaped, with five spreading lobes,, five 

 orange-tipped stamens and a protruding sticky-tipped pis- 

 til which receives pollen from a previous flower, from the 

 bodies of incoming bees. The construction of these blos- 

 soms is such that bees always enter them upside down in 

 order to be able to reach the nectar in the base; therefore 

 they get the pollen which is released from the anthers by 

 the pressure of their bodies, on their underparts where it is 

 in just the right position to be implanted on the stigma of 

 the next flower they visit. The leaves grow oppositely upon 

 the stem, the upper ones bein^ smooth edged and the lower 

 ones toothed or lobed. 



