
272 PLANTS GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 
FIRE-WEED. GREAT OR SPIKED WILLOW- scat 
Chamenérion augusttfolium, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Evening primrose. Magenta. Scentless. New England south- June-September. 
ward and westward. 
Flowers: large ; growing ina long terminal raceme which is slightly nod- 
ding. Calyx: deeply four-lobed. Coro//a: of four petals with short claws. 
Stamens: eight. Prsti/: one; stigma, four-lobed. ods : long ; narrow, the 
seeds having white, silky tufts. Leaves: alternate; lanceolate ; almost linear; 
willowy. Stem: at most eight feet high; erect ; leafy ; smooth. 
Dame Nature, with her wonderfully impartial heart, has pro- 
vided this handsome plant to grow abundantly in soil that has 
been burned over and therefore made black and unsightly to 
the eye. It also strays into dry meadows and peeps out on the 
roadsides. It is a conspicuous plant with deep hued, delicate 
blossoms which show their kinship to the evening primrose. 
PASSION FLOWER. (Plate CXZ/) 
Passtflora tncarnata, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Passion flower. Purple. Faintly fragrant. Virginia and Kentucky Summer. 
southward. 
Flowers: solitary ; axillary ; frequently having three bracts underneath, 
Calyx: tubular ; of five, or more divisions, highly coloured inside. Corolla: 
of five, or more petals which rest upon the throat of the calyx and appear to 
form a background for the heavy circular fringe made by numerous outreach- 
ing rays. Stamens : five, with long versatile anthers, their filaments united to a 
rod-like stalk that upholds the ovary. S¢yles: three; spreading ; club- 
shaped. eaves: alternate ; deeply three-cleft; serrated. Stem: woody ; : 
branching ; climbing by means of axillary tendrils. 
It is inthe dense forests of Brazil that the passion flowers are 
seen in all the majesty of their native loveliness. Their hue is 
brighter there than elsewhere, the flowers are larger and they 
have arare fragrance that is lost to a great extent in the North 
American species. There, the delicate, curious blossom first 
attracted the attention of the early Roman Catholic mission- 
aries, who, with fire and sword, were spreading the religion of 
love and gentleness. To them, it seemed that the flower held 
before their vision all the dreadful details of the crucifixion. 



