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However, such slips are occasionally made, and it will be 

 as well to correct one here, which ajjpcarcd in the last 

 issue of American Forestry, when Plantago lanceolata 

 was incorrectly described and fijfured as Plantago major; 

 the first-named is the English plantain, Rib Grass or Ripjjle 

 Grass, whereas the latter is the Common plantain. 



There would seem to be no doubt but that the beauti- 

 ful little white dais}^ shown in Figure 6 is the Common 

 Daisy Fleabane, or Sweet Scabious of some writers, though 

 this flower is often confused with the Daisy Fleabane. In 



the last edition of Gray's Manual, we find the Daisy Flea- 

 bane or Sweet Scabious called Erigeron annurus, and the 

 Daisy Fleabane, E. ramosiis, the very next species to it; 

 Mathews seems to confuse the two. In any event, the 

 White Daisy Fleabane is one of our most abundant plants, 

 and in some sections it may be found along the roadsides 

 everywhere. These plants got their curious name from the 

 fact that some people believe that when burned some 

 insects would shun them; and so we often see bunches of 

 them so treated h anging in country cottages. 



FOREST FLOWERS 



BY BESSIE L. PUTNAM 



WE are apt to look for our flowers in a class quite 

 apart from trees, and to value the latter, from the 

 esthetic point of view, merely for their verdure and 

 shade. And yet some of them are quite as much entitled 

 to floral recognition as some of the garden flowers grown 

 merely as flowers. 



Almost before the pussy willows have burst their furry 



catkins, the flower clusters of the red maple have burst 

 their buds, accentuating the brightness of color which the 

 twigs have been for weeks gathering, and which, to the 

 close observer, render the tree little less interesting in 

 spring than after the bright autumn colors are donned. 

 Less show)' but far more graceful are the greenish blossoms 

 of the sugar or hard maple, which appear a little later than 



Photo by A merifan Museum of Natural History 



THE WILD CRAB 



Blossoms most beautiful and fragrant, and in May time, when the flowers are at 

 their best, attracting- the bees and other winged creatures by the hundreds. 



Photo by American Museum of Natural History 



THE DOGWOOD 



The showy flowers of the dogwood — the banner of spring. One of the most con- 

 spicuous of all the flowering trees, making the hillsides in May truly beautiful. 



