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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



flav it will interest you to 

 know luiw all these plants 

 get their hard scientific 

 names, which frighten so 

 many pcujile away from a 

 more serious study of 

 them ; tliis bellvvort will 

 give you some idea of it. 

 .All tne diilcrcnt Kmds of 

 bellworl have droopiiiy 

 Mowers like the one you 

 see here, so we must have 

 a group-name (genus; for 

 them. It has been called 

 Uviilaria. Now if you 

 will look down your throat 

 in a glass you will note 

 a soft Httle thing, hang- 

 ing loosely from the roof 

 at the back and directly 

 in the middle of it ; this 

 is called the uvula; and. 

 as a liellwort flower droops 

 like a uvula, the group 

 has been called Uvularia. 

 That is not hard? Now 

 wc call this particular 

 l)i-ll\\(irt Uvularia per- 

 foliata, — that is, it comes 

 from the words meaning 

 a leaf that is pierced; and, 

 if yon will take a good 

 look at how the leaves (as 

 they are shown in P'igure 

 17 / appear to be pierced b\' 

 the stem (they really clasi) 

 the stem), you will un 

 derstand why we so name 

 this flower, and thus dis 

 tinguish the species from al 



.\IA.\V DI.SCONERIES AWAIT HEKK 



KiG. 20. — A good place to look for water plants. The surface is covered 

 with IjriRlu green scum, but this does not prevent your seeing the Iti^ 

 plants above it, as the Cat-tails, the purplish I'ii-kerel-weed and other things. 

 Hear that big bull-frog croaking? 



the otluT liellwnrts. ^'ol' 



will cniiie across Wild I'ergamoi in .\iimisl, and there is 

 a s|)leii(li(l siiecimen of it here given in l''igure 18. 'Hie 

 flowers run through a series of shades, all the wa\- from 

 wiiile 1(1 a deep magenta, ."scarlet < )swego Tea. with it> 

 dtx'p ii'd llowers, has a general look like this liergamot. 

 init yini cannot very well confuse them. 



Strange to say. the (Ireat Lobelia or I'.lue Cardinal 

 flower, is not .so distantly n-lated to the Red Cardinal 

 flower seen in Figure 1 ; but why this is so is a long 

 story, and too long a one to tell here. Sometimes its 

 heads have a very different form as shown in Figure l'>: 

 but departures of this kind are seen in many flowers in 

 nature, and ycm should always give them your attention. 

 There is nothing ])resent on llie pari of anv flower which 

 is not worthy of your most careful study. This big, blue 

 Lobelia, with its wealth of bright blue flowers, some- 

 times grows to be fully a vard high; so you will have 



no trouble in finding plenty 

 of it growing down by the 

 marshes, and along the soft, 

 swampy shores of sluggish 

 streams. .After you once 

 l<now the ]5lant, you will 

 never forget it or its name. 

 .So, when you come to 

 places where it grows, and 

 meet with a dozen or more 

 specimens standing uji 

 amidst the rank sedges 

 111(1 undergrowth, where 

 \ on have been trying t(j 

 force yourself through, it 

 is a great satisfaction to 

 say to yourself: "Oh, I 

 k 11 o w that thing ; that's 

 the Pilue or Great Lo- 

 belia." Ten to one, you 

 will meet with the red one 

 or Cardinal flower as yon 

 go a bit further. 



\y h e 11 the stream 

 broadens and becomes still 

 more sluggish, and reaches 

 the pond in the woods 

 (Fig. 20), you will surely 

 have your hands full to 

 gather all the 1 o v e 1 \- 

 flowers you will find there. 

 But then. Pickerel Weed, 

 .S k u n k Cabbage, jack-in- 

 the-Pulpit, Water Arum, 

 Cow Lily. Burr Reed, .\r- 

 row Head, and the rest of 

 them, are all big and con- 

 spicuous flowers, and it is 

 easy to (iiid out the names 

 of them. He sure not to 

 forget to take \-oiir flower collecting-case, when you go 

 out on a g(jod, long tr.aiiip . you can buy a nice one al 

 the store where the)- sell sup]:)lies for naturalists, and 

 twT) dollars and a half is plenty to pay for it. \'ou max' 

 find one for sonietbiiig less than that, sa\ about one dol- 

 lar and a half, riieii you should take along some news- 

 pai)ers : some string ; a few dozen common ])ins, and a 

 small, strong trowel, or, what is better, a big table-knife 

 to dig jilants up with entire, when you want to study 

 them al home. .\ good butterfly-net is another thing 

 that comes in verv liandv ; for the lime will snrelv come 



when yon wil 

 you find. 



want to stndv insects as well as the flowers 



r^NE of the very few towns where no taxes are as- 

 sessed is Freudenstadt, Germany. This town of 

 7,000 has an annual governmental expense of $25,000, 

 and pays it all from the revenue of 6,000 acres of town 

 forest. 



