CHAPTER VI 



PINK, ROSE, CRIMSON, MAGENTA, RED 



Many pink flowers become, in some localities where soil 

 and shade are different, white or nearly white. Others, in 

 the process of their natural growth, fade, becoming white or 

 nearly white, so that the old flowers may seem to vary from 

 those first coming into bloom. Those flowers with distinctly 

 white varieties are referred to in Chapter IV. 



Doctor Gray has been called color-blind, because he made 

 little distinction between purple and crimson. There are so 

 few really red (scarlet) flowers, and so many with puzzling 

 shades of crimson, magenta, and rose, and as botanists see 

 colors of flowers differently, it seems best to group all in 

 one chapter. The author will give the colors of those flowers 

 with which she is familiar, as they seem to her, hoping that 

 she represents the average eye for color. 



Water Plantain 



Alisma. Planiago-a.qua.tica.. — Color, white or sometimes a pale 

 pink. (See White Flowers, p. 40.) 



Sessile-leaved Twisted-stalk 



Streptopus roseus. — Family, Lily. Color, a deep rose, almost 

 purple. This plant springs from a short and thick rootstock 

 with fibrous roots. Perianth, bell-shaped, with the outer seg- 

 ments often curved backward. Anthers, curiously 2 -horned. 

 Style, 3-cleft. Flowers, on slightly bent peduncles, hanging, 

 one from under each leaf, joined to the axil about J inch 

 long. Leaves, very acute at apex, sessile, rounded or clasping 

 at base, 2 to 4 \ inches long, parallel - veined, with the stem 

 slightly hairy. Fruit, a round, red berry. 12 to 30 inches high. 

 May and June. 



These are graceful, pretty plants, with a strong likeness 

 to the uvularias and Solomon's Seal, of which they are near 



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