PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 
Fringed Polygala (Poly gala pauciJoUa) . Milkwort family. 
Spring, early summer. 
A perennial a few inches high, bearing one to three magenta 
flowers, nearly one inch long. Two of the five sepals are large 
and petal -like, the others insignificant; three petals, more or 
less united into a tube, one somewhat pouched, containing the 
(eight) stamens, and fringed at the top. Lower leaves insig- 
nificant ; at the top of the stem several larger ones. Open woods. 
Snake-mouth. Rose Pogonia {Pogonia ophioglossotdes) . 
Orchis family. June, July. 
Stem four to twelve inches high. The irregular, fragrant 
flower is nearly an inch long, pale-rose, with three sepals and 
three petals, one (the lip) bearded. A parallel-veined leaf near 
the middle; near the flower a small leaf or bract. Bogs. Greek 
name signifies bearded. 
Arethusa (Arethusa bulbosa). Orchis family. May, June. 
An early orchis averaging nine inches, with sheathing bracts, 
rising from a bulb. The "magenta-crimson" flower has a 
bearded lip, lance-leaved petals and sepals. A single linear leaf 
appears later at the base. Bogs. Named for the nymph who 
was changed into a fountain. 
" Arethusa arose 
From her couch of snows 
In the Acroceraunian mountains." — Shelley. 
Swamp Rose Mallow {Hibiscus Moscheutos). Mallow 
family. July, August. 
A perennial, six feet or over, with stout stem and flowers 
averaging five or six inches broad; five-lobed calyx and five 
petals. Leaves pointed, toothed, the lower lobed, the upper 
lance-shaped to oblong. In marshes near coast and waste 
places on shores. 
See also Yarrow (page 130), sometimes pink. 
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