
94 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL, 
SMALL WILLOW HERB. 
Epilobium coloratum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Evening primrose. Pale magenta. Scentless. General. Summer. 
Flowers : small; slightly nodding ; growing in terminal corymbs. Calyx : of 
four parted sepals. Corol/a: of four spreading petals notched at the apex. 
Stamens: eight. Pzstid: one; stigma, club-shaped. Seeds ; tufted with brown 
hairs. Leaves : opposite ; lanceolate; toothed and veined with purple. Stem : 
tail; rather smooth. 
We can hardly venture into any meadow during the summer 
that is moist enough to wet our feet without seeing this little 
herb. Its relative, the great willow herb, is found mostly along 
the roadsides and on clearings that have been burned over. 
HAIRY WILLOW HERB. 
Eptlobium hirsutum. 
The hairiness of this plant serves to distinguish it from the 
preceding one, It also grows to a greater height and its petals 
are a lovely, rosy pink. The uncultivated, moist soil of waste 
places is its favourite dwelling place. 
COMMON FRINGE TREE. 
Chiondanthus Virginica, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Olive. Snow white. Scentless. Penn. southward. Late spring and early summer. 
Flowers : growing in loose panicles. Calyx: very small; tubular. Corolla: 
of four petals, three quarters of an inch long, which barely unite at the base. 
Stamens : two; very short. P2st7/: one. Fruit: bluish purple; glaucous. Leaves: 
large ; ovate ; the Jower part downy. A shrub, or low branching tree. 
The pure loveliness of this shrub is one of the things that 
must be seen and come into close contact with before it can be 
fully appreciated. When along the river banks the cool 
zephyrs play through its snow-white, slender petals and we sit 
down beside it ; we long for its soft, gentle swaying never to 
cease, and think lovingly of our castles in the air and the fairy 
tales that enchanted us in childhood. 

