PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 
"Rsigged "Rohm (Lychnis flos-cucuU). Pink family. June 
to September. 
An unbranched perennial, a foot or two high, with several 
flowers (three-fourths inch) in umbellate clusters at the top. 
The petals are divided into narrow lobes. The leaves are nar- 
rowly lance-shaped. (Greek for lamp.) 
This was probably the Crow-flower of Elizabethan times — 
" There with fantastic garlands did she come. 
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies and long purples." 
Spring Beauty ( Claytonia virginica) . Purslane family. 
March to May. 
An early perennial, with low weak stem rising from a deeply 
buried tuber. The blossoms, on slender stalks in an open 
cluster, have two sepals, five spreading petals, and measure 
one-half to nearly an inch in diameter. Two linear to lance- 
shaped leaves. Open woods, more common southward. Named 
for John Clayton, American botanist. 
GROUP III 
Leaves opposite. Stem not four-sided. Flowers not with five 
petals. 
Slender Gerardia (Gerardia tenuifolia). Figwort family. 
August-September. 
A slender branching annual (named for Gerarde), generally 
under one and one-half feet; leaves linear and sharp-pointed, 
one-half to one inch long. Magenta flowers (three-fourths inch 
long) on stalks from axils; calyx bell-shaped, corolla tubular, 
five-lobed ; flower-stalks generally as long as the flower. Dry 
ground. Common. Purple Gerardia (Gerardia purpurea) is 
similar but with larger leaves and flowers, and flower-stalks 
shorter than the calyx. Sea-side Gerardia (Gerardia maritima) 
is an annual, under a foot high, with flowers on stalks hardly 
longer than the calyx until in fruit. 
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