RED AND ORANGE FLOWERS 
GROUP I 
Leaves opposite. 
Pimpernel. Poor Man's Weatherglass (AnagalHs arvensis). 
Primrose family. June, July. 
A low annual with calyx and corolla five-parted ; stamens five. 
The blossoms shut at about four o'clock. Blue Pimpernel 
(AnagalHs arvensis ccerulea) is an occasional find. 
"... And fairy fingers 
Close unseen the pimpernels. ..." — Calverly. 
Oswego Tea. Bee Balm (Monarda didyma). Mint 
family. July, August. 
A perennial, three feet high, with square stem, and flowers 
in a head. Calyx five-toothed; corolla two inches long, two- 
lipped, upper lip erect, lower three-lobed; stamens long. The 
leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, pointed, sharply toothed, 
with stalks. Woods. (See cut of Wild Bergamot, page 235.) 
Fire Pink (Silene virginica). Pink family. June, July. 
An upright herb, maximum height two feet, gummy-hairy. 
Scarlet flowers (one to one and one-half inches broad) with five 
petals, notched. Leaves lance-shaped. Woods. New York, 
South and West. 
Trumpet Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempenirens) . Honey- 
suckle family. Spring, summer. 
A climbing vine. The flowers are without stalks, in whorled 
clusters, red outside, yellow inside ; corolla (one to one and one- 
half inches) trumpet-shaped; style projecting. The leaves are 
oblong, upper confluent. Thickets. Named after Adam Lonitzer. 
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