RED AND ORANGE FLOWERS 
GROUP III 
Leaves otherwise than opposite or whorled. 
Crimson Clover. Italian Clover (TrtfoHum incarnatum). 
Pulse family. 
An upright annual practically unbranched, six inches to 
two feet high, with showy, crimson heads an inch or two long. 
Leaves of three somewhat wedge-shaped leaflets. Fields. 
Common in Italy, now multiplying in eastern United States. 
Prince's Feather {Polygonum orientale). Buckwheat 
family. Late summer, early autumn. 
A branching annual, one to several feet tall, with large, egg- 
shaped, pointed leaves with stalks. The flower, much larger 
than is common in the polygona, is in a showy compact spike 
(one to four inches long), has a rose-colored calyx, seven pro- 
jecting stamens, and a style split at the end. The leaves are 
finely hairy at the edge. This rather attractive plant is found 
in waste places in the eastern part of the country. 
Cardinal-flower ( Lobelia cardinalis) . Lobelia family. 
Summer. 
A striking (one to one and one-half inch) perennial of the 
woods borne in the axils of the leaves or in a long tenninal 
raceme on a stem sometimes reaching four feet. Calyx is five- 
cleft with short tube, corolla of two lips, one split, so that the 
(united) stamens are free from the corolla. The leaves are 
oblong to lance-shaped, slightly toothed. Low ground. Com- 
mon along banks of rivers. Miss Swett says : 
" When the scarlet cardinal tells 
Her dream to the dragon fly, 
And the lazy breeze makes a nest in the trees, 
And mumiurs a lullaby, 
It is July." 
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