HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



edges of Long Island fresh-water bays, and on banks of 

 brooks, often quite in water, blossoming all summer. Swamps 

 or wet, sandy shores from Maine to Virginia and westward. 



G. virginikna. — Color of corolla, in tube yellowish, in limb 

 white. (See White Flowers, p. 127.) 



Downy False Foxglove 



" The foxgloves and the fern — 

 How gracefully they grow, 

 With grand old oaks above them 

 And wavy grass below!" 



Gerardia flhva. — Family, Figwort. Color, yellow. Leaves, the 

 lower often deeply and irregularly cut; upper entire, oblong, or 

 lance-like. A beautiful, bell-like flower, large, with a tubular, 

 5-cleft, short calyx, and 5 broad, spreading, rounded corolla-lobes 

 ending a long, somewhat inflated tube which is woolly inside. The 

 corolla slips easily off its receptacle. The 4 stamens, their anthers 

 nodding toward one another in pairs, are bearded. Plant 2 to 4 

 feet high. The buds are especially pretty, often with a slight 

 tinge of pink in their round heads. July and August. (See illus- 

 tration, p. 205.) 



Smooth False Foxglove 



G. <virginica is taller, 3 to 6 feet, and lacks the pubescence of 

 the preceding. The showy, large blossoms (2 inches long) mingle 

 with graceful foliage, the lower leaves twice cut into fine divisions, 

 the upper lance-shaped and entire. 



Both the downy and smooth may sometimes be found 

 together on hillsides or in light, thin woods. Picked, they 

 afford little satisfaction, because the leaves and stems quickly 

 turn black. Root parasitic, 



Yellow Gerardia 



G. pediculkria is a leafy, branching species, 2 or 3 feet high. 

 The leaves are very much cut, with dissected and toothed lobes, 

 the lower large, the upper quite small. The stems bearing the 

 pretty yellow bells are longer than the calyx-lobes. The latter 

 are irregularly cut and hairy. The corolla is sticky on the out- 

 side. August and September. 



This graceful, handsome herb is found in light woods along 

 our entire Atlantic border. Some such spots in Long 

 Island are colored yellow with masses of these foxgloves. 

 (See illustration, p. 207.) 



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