Wild flowers and where they grow . our or five feet long. Wonderful reeds, and the flags where cat-tails are, n6 WILD FLOWERS. made a jungle almost tall enough for the cows to get lost inas they went pressing their way through. Down on the little beach of white sand, standing just inthe water, grew the pretty little speckled heads of pipewort,and the, silvery, begonia-like flowers of the cardinal-flowers glowed like fire among the shadowsunder the trees at the waters edge; and there were rodsout on the pond which were blue with pickerel-weed over thewhole area, like the
Wild flowers and where they grow . our or five feet long. Wonderful reeds, and the flags where cat-tails are, n6 WILD FLOWERS. made a jungle almost tall enough for the cows to get lost inas they went pressing their way through. Down on the little beach of white sand, standing just inthe water, grew the pretty little speckled heads of pipewort,and the, silvery, begonia-like flowers of the cardinal-flowers glowed like fire among the shadowsunder the trees at the waters edge; and there were rodsout on the pond which were blue with pickerel-weed over thewhole area, like the deep blue of the noon sky in lilies were all open; one could gather them by the boat-load. Dripping, white, golden-^fZS stemmed, they gave out fragrance asif censers of incense were be-ing waved by invisible handsin the air. THE PITCHER PLANTS, The meadow was in its glory ; not with - ^ ripe cranberries — it was too early — but with pitcher-plants in bloom. Under that fervid July sun they glowed like the glorious. A PITCHER PLANT FAMILY THE PITCHER PLANTS. 117 red of old stained glass, or like a ruby stone, or wine whenthe light shines through it. On a dark day the color is prob-ably purplish and dull, but on a bright one it is as I havesaid; it is sumptuous. The flower is in shape like no other. It has been fanciedto resemble a side-saddle: wherefore the name. The form and use of the leaf suggest the three others bywhich it is known. It is a fox-glove — a very long-wristed one is a pitcher-plant, and a huntsmans cup ; all quite to thepurpose. The pitcher has a hood which serves for cover. It is alwaysupright, holds nearly a gill of water, and is never empty. Thetexture is so tough that it will bear being kept on the hotcoals till the water boils. Many a time we have tried theexperiment. In those days such a term as carniverous hadhardly been applied to plants. It would have seemed worsethan the cannibals. Nevertheless, our superb sarracenia entrapsinse
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