PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 
Herb Robert {Geranium Rohertianum) . Geranium family. 
May to October. 
A branching annual or biennial, not over one and one-half 
feet. The reddish stem has scattered hairs. There are one to 
three small flowers on a stalk. Fruit in form of a long beak, 
the carpels springing away at the base to discharge the seed. 
The leaves are palmately three-divided, sometimes five-divided, 
the divisions irregularly cut. Woods and shady places. (Greek 
for crane, referring to shape of fruit.) 
Sand Spurrey {Spergularia rubra). Pink family. All 
summer. 
A small matted plant, annual or biennial, with slender stem, 
a few inches high, bearing very small flowers at the top and in 
the axils. Leaves linear, in pairs, but with others clustered in 
the axils. Sandy soil near the coast. (Latin spar gar e, to scatter, 
of the seeds.) 
Deptford Pink (Dianthus Armeria). Pink family. 
July. 
A rather common, very stiff, slender annual with small, deep- 
pink blossoms at the ends of the ascending branches ; styles two. 
The leaves are long, slender, and hairy. Fields and roadsides. 
Greek signifies flower of Jupiter. 
Wild Pink (Silene pennsylvanica) . Pink family. April to 
June. 
A low but rather noticeable perennial when many are in 
bloom together in the open woods (see page io8 for derivation). 
The flowers, with wedge-shaped petals and three styles, are in 
clusters. The leaves on the stem are lance-sh^ped, those at the 
base spoon-shaped, with hairy stalks. Dry ground. This is 
doubtless the plant to which Wordsworth refers in the line — 
" The wild pink crowns the garden wall." 
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