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and bearing axillary clusters of miniature green “passion flowers”. 
The banks of many of the streams are hedged with Hydrangea 
arborescens, L.., associated with Staphylea trifolia, L., Carpinus 
Americana, Michx., Lindera Benzoin, Meisner, the red maple 
and the slippery elm. Cornus florida and Viburnum acerifolium 
are common. 
In the month of July the woods are bright with the orange- 
red flowers of the trumpet creeper ( Zecoma radicans), which climbs 
to the tops of the highest trees. There are also a number of quite 
pretty Labiates to be collected, among which are Scutellaria verst- 
color, Nutt.; Scutellaria canescens, Nutt.; Blephila hirsuta, Benth.; 
and Monarda fistulosa, L. 
Impatiens fulva, Nutt., and Jmpatiens pallida, Nutt., are 
equally common. Campanula Americana, L., grows as a rank 
weed, associated with Agrimonia Eupatoria, L.; Silene stellata, 
Ait., and Eupatorium purpureum, L. 
Many of the common weeds growing in hedges and along the 
roadsides are not foundin New England. <Actznomeris squarrosa, 
Nutt., is a coarse yellow Composite, somewhat like a Helianthus in 
general appearance, but easily determined by the decurrent leaves 
which form broad green wings along the stem. 
Dysodia chrysanthemoides, Lag, the “fetid marigold’’, and 
Cunila Mariana, L., are also weeds not found in New England. 
The Peoria state, or five-spurred form, of the common Linaria 
vulgaris, Mill., occurs very frequently in waste places. The 
garden chamomile, Anthemis nobilis, L., has established itself in 
several spots, growing among the Mayweed, Waruta Cotula, DC., 
a plant which it very closely resembles, but from which it may 
easily be distinguished by its pleasant odor. 
Many of the New England asters and golden rods occur, and 
with them a number of western and southern species. Solidago 
rupestris, Solidago Shortii, Torr. and Gray, and Aster Shortit, 
Boott., are all very pretty species. The last has beautiful light 
purple ray flowers and lemon-colored discs. The heads form 
numerous luxuriant panicles, frequently growing four or five feet 
high. 
Along the banks of the creeks and rivers another beautiful 
Composite grows, Sz/phium perfoliatum, L. It is associated with 
