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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE SEA OR MARSH PINK. \Sabbatia stellarls.) The Sea or Marsh Pink, or the Roseof Plymouth, as it is frequently called,is a member of the beautiful gentianfamily. The genus Sabbatia, a nameadopted in honor of an Italian botanist,includes about fourteen species, all na-tives of eastern North America and Mex-ico. Our illustration is taken from Na-tures Garden and Neltje Blanchan, itsauthor, writes as follows regarding thosespecies of the marsh pinks that are con-fined to the vicinity of the Atlanticocean: Three exquisite members ofthe Sabbatia tribe keep close to the At-lantic coast in salt meadows and marsh-es, along the borders of brackish rivers,and very rarely in the sand at the edgesof fresh-water ponds a little way in-land. From Maine to Florida theyrange, and less frequently are met alongthe shores of the Gulf of Mexico so faras Louisiana. How bright and daintvthey are ! Whole meadows are > radiantwith their blushing loveliness. Prob-ably if they consented to live far awavfrom

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