
218 PLANTS GROWING IN LIGHT SOIL. 
noting its whereabouts, to avoid it; as in the late season it 
sheds abroad very little of the milk of human kindness in 
attaching its burrs to the unfortunate. 
WILD PINK. (Plate CX/Z) 
Szlene Caroliniana. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Pink. Rose pink, Scentless. Eastern, middle and April-June. 
to nearly white. southern states. 
flowers: clustered at the ends of the flower-stalks. Calyx: long; of five 
sepals that form atube. Corol/a: of five notched petals with claws that are 
enclosed in the calyx-tube. Stamens: ten. istil: one; styles, three. Leaves: 
those from the base, long, narrow, clustered; terminating in hairy petioles; 
those of the stem lanceolate, opposite. Svem: four to eight inches high; 
branching ; vigourous. 
Let us cast a glance at these lovely deep, rosy pinks as we 
pause by some rocky ledge in the open May woods. They sit 
so jauntily upon their stems and have such an assured expres- 
sion that we feel they are whispering to each other very spicy 
things ; and who knows but about us? Indeed, the flowers 
have quite as good a right to criticise our manners and appear- 
ance as we have to chatter so much about them. 
FIRE PINK. VIRGINIA CATCHFLY. (Pilate CVJZ,) 
Szlene Virgtnica. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Pink. Scarlet. Scentless. New York southward All summer. 
and westward. 
Flowers: few; growing on pedicels in a cyme. Calyx: tubular ; five-cleft ; 
sticky ; nodding in fruit. Corolla: of five lanceolate, deeply two-cleft petals. 
Stamens: ten. Pistil: one; styles, three. Zeaves: small; lanceolate; thin. 
Stem : one to two feet high; erect; slender; pubescent. 
The viscid substance that covers the calyx and stems of the 
fire pink has led emblematists, whose hearts have been full of 
compassion for the hapless insects held to die by its means, to 
associate the idea of remorseless fate with the plant. It is not 
thought that it assimilates its victims for nourishment as is cus- 
tomary with the insectivorous plants; and its large sticky 
calyx is therefore to be regretted, as it mars toa great extent 

