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Title: Wild flowers every child should know : arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stack, Frederic William, 1871-
Subjects: Flowers Wild flowers
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page and Company
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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midsummer gaiety. DEPTFORD PINK Didnthus Armeria. Pink Family. A pretty, unobtrusive immigrant from Europe isthe Deptford Pink, resembling the familiar SweetWilliam of our gardens, and to which it is a nearrelative. When one considers that this Pink belongsto the same family as the famous Lawson Pink of ten-thousand dollar parentage, it is not difficult to imaginethat it feels ill at ease and out of its class in our fieldsand meadows, or along our grassy roadsides, whereit has become thoroughly naturalized. It is a stiff,erect annual, growing from six to eighteen inches high,and is covered with very fine hairs. The slender,green stalk is slightly branching. The long, narrowpointed leaves are strongly ribbed, downy surfaced,and firm-textured. They occur in alternating pairs,which unite and clasp the stem with a prominentjoint. The lower ones are blunt at the tip. The small,five-petalled flowers usually occur in pairs, terminallyclustered or springing from the axils of the leaves on 40
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OSWEGO TEA. BEE BALM. Monarda didyma WILD FLOWERS pink short, slender stems. The large, five-parted, green,tubular calyx is guarded by four narrow, stiff,sharply toothed and pointed bracts, which give theflowering head a crowded and bayonneted appear-ance. The bud reminds one of an oat. The oblongpetals have finely notched tips. They are deeppink in colour, and the surface is minutely speckledwith whitish dots. The generic name, Dianthus,signifying Joves own flower, was applied to thePinks by Theophrastus, the Greek philosopher,who greatly admired their exquisite fragrance andbeauty. This Pink is found from Maine to Vir-ginia, and westward to Michigan and Iowa, dur-ing July and August. PINK CORYDALIS Corydalis sempervirens. Fumitory Family. Although the tall, branching growth of the PinkCorydalis does not compare satisfactorily with thatof the low, clustered, and single-stemmed groupingof the Dutchmans Breeches, the peculiarly flattenedcorolla of the flowers suggests their kinship. At

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