
72 PLANTS GROWING IN MUD, 
white beard. Stamens: five. Pistil: one. Stigma: two-lobed. Leaves: three 
oblong leaflets borne on a long petiole. ootstock ; creeping. 
Hidden away in some secluded corner of a swamp we may 
chance upon the lovely white buckbean, Its racemes of star- 
like faces, covered with the soft fringe, have a sweet expression 
that is most attractive. 
SEA=PINK. 
Sabbatia stellaris. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Gentian. Deep pink. Scentless. Mass. southward. August. 
Flowers: iarge ; solitary; terminal on the ends of the flower-stalks. Calyx: 
of five-parted linear lobes. Coro/la: wheel-shaped; with five, deeply-parted 
lobes. Stamens: five. Pistil: one; style, two-cleft. Leaves: opposite ; 
lanceolate ; becoming linear as they ascend the stem. Stem: branching ; 
slender. 
We may picture to ourselves the sea-pinks by the side of a 
green marsh with the salt breezes blowing about us. There, 
spread outin brilliantly-coloured masses of great extent, they 
form a little world by themselves,—living and weaving out their 
own destiny. A bright, cheery lot they are too, with round yellow 
eyes that look at us frankly and without showing the slightest 
signs of drowsitiess. There is very little sleep allowed in their 
households, hardly even forty winks; and yet they do not want 
for beauty. They are always freshand bright and wide-awake, 
S. dodecaudra, or large sabbatia, is a beautiful species, whose 
blooms are rosy pink, or white. The corolla is fuller than that 
of the preceding flower and often as much as two and a 
quarter inches broad. On the borders of brackish ponds, es- 
pecially in southern New Jersey, it is found in great abundance. 
S. campanulata (Plate X X XJ.) is readily known by the length 
of its sepals, which is unusually great, equal, in fact, to that of 
the petals. 
Throughout Massachusetts, and especially about Plymouth, 
the sabéatia is held in great admiration, almost reverence. It is 
called the rose of Plymouth, and it is generally believed that its 
generic name is associated with the pilgrims having first beheld 
iton thesabbathday. Facts, however, that are often just a trifle 

