PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 
Wild Morning Glory. Hedge Bindweed (Convolvulus 
septum). Convolvulus family. June to August. 
A climbing plant with bell-shaped flowers, sometimes two 
inches across, and broadly arrow-shaped leaves. This is Words- 
worth's "Cumbrous bindweed with its wreaths and bells." 
Climbing Fumitory (Adlumia fungosa) . Fumitory family. 
June to September. 
A biennial with delicate stem and foliage, climbing on bushes. 
Flowers pendulous, clustered ; sepals two ; corolla closed. Leaves 
thrice pinnately compound, leaflets lobed. Damp woods. 
Named for J. Adlum. 
See also Arrow-leaved Tear-thumb, page 152. 
GROUP VI 
Leaves otherwise than opposite or whorled. Shrub. 
Pink Azalea. Pinxter Flower. Wild Honeysuckle (Rhodo- 
dendron nudiflorum). Heath family. May. 
A noticeable swamp plant in spring time, sometimes reaching 
six feet. The flowers are large in umbelled clusters and generally 
precede the leaves; corolla with tube and five lobes; stamens 
and styles long. Leaves downy beneath. Swamps. Greek 
signifies rose tree. 
Rhodora (Rhododendron canadense) . Heath family. May, 
June. 
A plant not over three feet with large and handsome flowers. 
The magenta corolla is two-Upped, one Hp two- to three-lobed, 
the other split to the base ; the calyx is tiny. The leaves appear 
after the flowers, are oblong, not toothed. Found in bogs: 
" I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, 
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook. 
To please the desert and the sluggish brook." — Emerson. 
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