Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry231917amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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406 AMERICAN FORESTRY Originally the plant came from Europe, introtiuci-cl into The leaves of Bouncing J!et are smooth and from our gardens, from whence it has escaped to establish it- three to five-ribbed, and have an ovate or even oval- self along the highways in the country districts through- lanceolate outline. The most interesting relatives of the out a very wide range of our country. In many localities Saponaria are the Campion or Catchflies—curious plants it is very abundant and flourishes luxuriantly. In old with very interesting histories. Their generic name is days it was supposed to possess medicinal properties, the from a (ireek word meaning saliva, which refers to the idea having gained ground from the fact that its leaves, when bruised, will form a soap-like lather when agitated in water. Many moths and other insects help to fertilize its flowers, and the plant also propagates through its un- derground runners. This latter means often accounts for our finding the plant growing in colonies in some waste fence corner along the roadside. A popular writer at hand says: " It was always a mystery to Dickens that a door nail should have been consid- ered so much more dead than any other inanimate object, and it seems also strange that this plant should have suggested the idea of bouncing more than other plants. Dear Bettie does not bounce, nor could she if she would. She sits most firmly on her stem, and her characteristics seem to be home-loving and sim- ple. We are sure to find her pee))ing through the garden fences, or on the roadside, where the chil- dren nod to her as they pass by. She is one of the best viscid juice found in the calyx and stems of some of the species ; in this small in- sects are frequently en- tangled. Some of the wild carna- tions also belong to this Pink family, and some of these have been domesti- cated for ornamental pur- poses. EASTERN FOREST RESERVES BOUGHT ^HE National Eorest Reservation Com- mission h a s ap- prtn'ed the purchase of 51.'^16 acres of land in the W bite Mountains and Southern Appalachians for inclusion in the Na- tional Forests of those re- gions. The two largest and most important tracts whose )mrchase was au- thorized are one of 11,000 acres on the White Top National Forest in Smyth County, \'a., and another of 10,000 acres on the Sa- vannah National Forest on the Tallulah River in Rabun and Habersham Counties, Ga. The jnir- chase of three additional tracts, with a total of 1203 acres, was authorized their stems a "mucilaginous juice forming a lather with water." In the Pink qj^ t\\^ SaWlUllah National family, in this country, also occur several species of Carnation plants iDianlhiis): .he Campions and Chickwceds, of which there are many kinds; the Spurrey, Pcarlworts, and a number of species of Sandworts; finally the Corn Cockle, which has aiready been described and figured in American Forestry (May, 1917). The insect shown on the flower below the crowning bunch is one of the Damsel-flies of the Dragon-fiy group (genus Calopteryx); it is the black species of feeble flight, so frequently seen about the small streams that find their way through the shady forests of Eastern United States. Dr. L. O. Howard says that their " large pop-eyes which seem almost stalked like those of a crab" arc distinctive of them.
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BOUNCI.NG BET, THE FLOWER OF THE DUSTY ROADSIDES Fig. 5.—This well-known flower is also called "Soapwort." hence its scientific name Saponaria (sapo, soap), it being Saponaria officinalis of the pink family (Caryophyllacetr); the "Cowherb" is the only other representative of the same IrvTioM n( niir \\-ne;-p ornnild genus (.S. vaceria). Both plants came originally from Europe, .Hnd, as Gray lUVCU Ul uui w.iMC s'uiiMu remarks, they are "coarse annuals or perennials, with large flowers," having in flora." It would appear that the common double variety of this plant is the original cul- tivated species, and the sin- gle variety is its more sim- Forcst. On tlu- White Moun- tain National Forest 11,270 acres, chiefly in Carroll and Grafton Coun- ple and wild form derived from it—the plant that usually tie.s, N. II., were approved for purchase. By the ac- occurs along roadside, far from any country garden patch, quisition of this land the purchases which have here- The flowers of Bouncing Bet are sometimes of a bright tofore been made in the White Mountains are con- pink color, and as a rule they possess a certain spicy nected and rounded out. fragrance, which some writers speak of as " an old-fash- The purchase of 40 different tracts comprising ap- ioned odor," whatever may be meant 1)\- that term. In proximately 7750 acres on the Alabama National Forest typical flowers, the distal ends of the petals are scalloped, in Lawrence County, Ala., was ordered. This will raise a fact that lends to them a still nearer resemblance to a the total Government holdings on this forest to about I'ink, though, as a matter of fact, this resemblance is 30.000 acres. In Rockbridge, Amherst, and Botetourt never verv close. Counties, \'a.. 7454 acres were approved for purchase.

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