PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 
Racemed Milkwort (Poly gala polygama). Milkwort 
family. Midsummer. 
A biennial, about eight inches high. The small flowers are in 
loose racemes; sepals five, two large (wings); petals three, 
united, cut at top; eight stamens. The 
leaves are inversely lance-shaped to ob- 
long, not toothed. Sandy places, near 
coast. 
Fireweed {Epilohimn angiisiifolium) . Even- 
ing Primrose family. Midsummer. 
A perennial, two to six feet high. 
Flowers (three-fourths to one and one- 
fourth inches) in showy racemes; petals 
four; stamens eight; stigma four-divided. 
Leaves resemble willow-leaves. Pod linear. 
Low ground, especially recently burnt over. 
(Greek, upon a pod.) 
Thread-leaved Sundew {Drosera fiUformis) . 
Sundew family. June to September. 
A slender stem averaging a foot high, 
bears a one-sided raceme of small flowers; 
generally five petals, five stamens, and 
three styles. Leaves (from root only) 
thread-like, covered with blunt-tipped 
hairs. In sand on the coast. Southern New England to 
Delaware. Drosera signifies dewy. 
Pasture Thistle {Cirsium pumilum). Composite family. 
July to September. 
The fragrant thistle, on the nectar of which bees and but- 
terflies feast to intoxication. (See frontispiece.) 
THREAD-LEAVED SUNDEW 
(Drosera. Jjliformis) 
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